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It’s alive. Swinput has gotten a new developer

February 1, 2008 on 6:35 pm | In Free Software, GNU Xnee, geek | No Comments

Some 4 years have passed without much done in the swinput project. Even though we’ve received a number of reports, not much have been done. The only thing that happened was that swinput had been turned into a patch work, due to all the small fixes done with months in between them.

When Daniel Hiepler send a patched swinput 0.7.2 I realized that swinput is a really fun program (kernel module) to both use and develop so the energy is back.
I am planning a workshop on developing linux modules (kernel modules) and swinput may actually be a good basis…. hmmmm.

Will update Gnu Xnee’s test scripts accordingly.
BTW, Swinput can fake a mouse and a keyboard by using the Linux Input System. The swinput modules read from a device and fakes hardware event (mouse motion, key presses etc) as commands written on the devices. Swinput presents status etc on the proc filesystem.

… and Daniel, thanks for teaming up

New GNU stuff October 2007

November 2, 2007 on 1:04 am | In Free Software, GNU Xnee | No Comments

This is a compilation of the GNU software releases as
announced during October 2007 on the mailing list:

http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-prog

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GNU Xnee 3.02 / 2007-10-31

GNU Xnee is a suite of programs that can record, replay and distribute user actions under the X11 environment.
http://www.sandklef.com/xnee/

glpk 4.23 / 2007-10-28

GLPK (GNU Linear Programming Kit) is intended for solving large-scale linear programming (LP), mixed integer linear programming (MIP), and other related problems.
http://www.gnu.org/software/glpk/glpk.html

Libgcrypt 1.3.1 / 2007-10-26

Libgcrypt is a general purpose library of cryptographic building blocks.
http://www.gnupg.org/

GNU Gama 1.9.04 / 2007-10-20

GNU Gama is a project dedicated to adjustment of geodetic networks.
http://www.gnu.org/software/gama

GnuTLS 2.0.2 / 2007-10-17

GnuTLS is a modern C library that implement the standard network security protocol Transport Layer Security (TLS), for use by network applications.
http://www.gnutls.org/

GNU Guile 1.8.3 / 2007-10-16

Guile is an interpreter for the Scheme programming language, with support for many SRFIs, packaged for use in a wide variety of environments.
http://www.gnu.org/software/guile

GNU CLISP 2.42 / 2007-10-16

ANSI Common Lisp is a high-level, general-purpose programming language.
http://www.gnu.org/software/clisp/

GNU Classpath 0.96 “Staying Alive” / 2007-10-16

GNU Classpath, essential libraries for java, is a project to create free core class libraries for use with runtimes, compilers and tools for the java programming language.
http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/

GNU tar 1.19 / 2007-10-10

The Tar program provides the ability to create tar archives, as well as various other kinds of manipulation. For example, you can use Tar on previously created archives to extract files, to store additional files, or to update or list files which were already stored.
http://www.gnu.org/software/tar

GNU AutoGen Version 5.9.3/AutoOpts Version 31.0 / 2007-10-07

GNU AutoGen/AutoOpts is a two-part project that serves two separate purposes. The two parts are combined
because they are inextricably intertwined
http://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/

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If you have any comments or questions regarding this
compilation, contact Henrik Sandklef (hesa at gnu org)

Article about GNU Xnee in Linux Magazine

October 10, 2007 on 10:35 am | In Free Software, GNU Xnee | No Comments

… got a text message from Peter that there was an article about Xnee in Linux Magazine. Always nice for an ego as big as mine. But I really wished the author had not focused on gnee…. But since he did, it is a sign that gnee needs moe attention.

Anyway, nice reading

GNU Xnee 3.01.90 released

September 13, 2007 on 11:08 pm | In GNU Xnee | No Comments

Beta release of GNU Xnee

GNU Xnee 3.01.90 is released
New in this release

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Syntax changes:

* Changed xnee_replay_offset
to replay-offset

New features:

* Version printout changed according
to new GNU coding standards

Build changes:

* Docs built by default

* New configure options:
–enable-static-programs (build static programs)

* Changed configure options:
–enable-lib (install libxnee)

Bugs fixed:

* Tries harder to move window
Entire post can be found here http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-xnee/2007-09/msg00003.html