Distro patch to rotate pressure-sensitive tablets when RANDR changes
- From: Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>
- To: distributor-list gnome org
- Cc: Control Center List <gnomecc-list gnome org>
- Subject: Distro patch to rotate pressure-sensitive tablets when RANDR changes
- Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:29:50 -0600
Hi,
In the old resapplet, openSUSE had a patch to rotate a graphics tablet
(Wacom, etc.) when you rotate your monitor. This was very useful for
tablet PCs like the Lenovo T61.
I just resurrected that patch for the new gnome-settings-daemon and
gnome-display-properties.
Talking to Søren and #xorg-devel about this, we decided that it's best
to leave this semi-hack as a patch in distros, and instead do the right
thing in X itself (have the input drivers detect RANDR events and rotate
themselves if needed). But while that infrastructure becomes available,
it's still useful to rotate tablets automatically.
The patches are thus:
gnome-settings-daemon - Add a
boolean /apps/gnome-settings-daemon/xrandr/rotate_tablet_with_monitor
key in GConf. If true, the tablet is rotated with xsetwacom when you
rotate your monitor. If false, the tablet is not rotated.
gnome-control-center - Add a checkbox to the gnome-display-properties
dialog for the option above. We don't detect if your tablet is built-in
or not, so we need this option for now.
The Git repositories are here:
http://gitorious.org/projects/gnome-settings-daemon/repos/mainline
http://gitorious.org/projects/gnome-control-center/repos/mainline
Look for the "rotate-wacom-tablet" branches in those repositories.
Federico
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