Comments on: Screen Rotation for Jaunty on my x60 Tablet http://blog.theadventus.com/yuit/2009/06/01/screen-rotation-for-jaunty-on-my-x60-tablet/ Just another TAC Blogs weblog Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:26:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: yuit http://blog.theadventus.com/yuit/2009/06/01/screen-rotation-for-jaunty-on-my-x60-tablet/comment-page-1/#comment-66 yuit Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:13:05 +0000 http://blog.theadventus.com/yuit/?p=75#comment-66 Cool - let me try that. I've just upgraded my X60 to X61, and the current script doesn't rotate the stylus.... Cool - let me try that. I’ve just upgraded my X60 to X61, and the current script doesn’t rotate the stylus….

]]> By: Rob Taylor http://blog.theadventus.com/yuit/2009/06/01/screen-rotation-for-jaunty-on-my-x60-tablet/comment-page-1/#comment-65 Rob Taylor Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:55:46 +0000 http://blog.theadventus.com/yuit/?p=75#comment-65 Better than hacking the info.products hal key is to modify the rotatescreen script with this patch: <code> --- rotatetablet 2009-07-30 15:53:07.000000000 +0100 +++ rotatetablet.1 2008-08-05 14:02:54.000000000 +0100 @@ -73,11 +73,8 @@ echo 'Trying to unrotate again...' /usr/bin/xrandr -o $N & fi - - stylus_udi=`hal-find-by-property --key input.x11_options.Type --string stylus` - stylus_name=`hal-get-property --udi $stylus_udi --key info.product` - echo "$stylus_udi, $stylus_name" - xsetwacom set "$stylus_name" Rotate $T & \ + + xsetwacom set stylus Rotate $T & \ echo $N > $STATUS_FILE } </code> Better than hacking the info.products hal key is to modify the rotatescreen script with this patch:


--- rotatetablet 2009-07-30 15:53:07.000000000 +0100
+++ rotatetablet.1 2008-08-05 14:02:54.000000000 +0100
@@ -73,11 +73,8 @@
echo 'Trying to unrotate again...'
/usr/bin/xrandr -o $N &
fi
-
- stylus_udi=`hal-find-by-property --key input.x11_options.Type --string stylus`
- stylus_name=`hal-get-property --udi $stylus_udi --key info.product`
- echo "$stylus_udi, $stylus_name"
- xsetwacom set "$stylus_name" Rotate $T & \
+
+ xsetwacom set stylus Rotate $T & \
echo $N > $STATUS_FILE
}

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