Re: Distro patch to rotate pressure-sensitive tablets when RANDR changes

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

Thanks Federico.  Love to see this in Fedora.

Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> 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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