Multi-touch available for Linux and Chrome OS?

24th April, 2010 by Adina
Tags: Chrome OS, Google, Linux, News, OS

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Synaptics Inc., a human interface solutions developer, has announced its Synaptics Gesture Suite ready for Linux-based devices. This way, multi-touch support is available for the first time to the open source operating system. Synaptics is currently offering multi-touch interface for Windows-based TouchPad devices.

The Synaptics Gesture Suite can also be used on Google Chrome OS-based devices ranging from small remote controls and netbooks to notebooks and other OEM devices. Other Linux-based operating systems supported include Xandros, Ubuntu, SuSE, Red Flag, Millos Linpus and Fedora.

The Gesture Suite for Linux enables users to perform action such as two-finger scrolling, rotation, three-finger press, three-finger flick, momentum, pinch-to-zoom and chiral scrolling.

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