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["Andrew Stromme" <andrew.stromme@xxxxxxxxx>]

The tablet conversion event is very possibly unique to each laptop. I also
am willing to bet that it's expressed as a keypress. At least on my laptop
(R15) the hinge is the thing that 'detects' the rotation, and so it makes
more sense to send the event through the keyboard.

This should make it fairly easy to detect, maybe through xev? Otherwise, you
might be able to watch the raw data flow from the keyboard input.

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 2:01 AM, Justin Dugger <jldugger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I subscribed a few days ago and apparently nobody's used the list yet,
> so I thought I'd send the list's inaugural email.  I have a Toshiba
> Tablet M7, and you can see about where it stands today on the wiki. I
> haven't updated it in a while -- maintaining huge wiki tables is
> painful.
>
> Anyways, I'm curious if anyone has researched tablet rotation in any
> detail.  I've gotten a script together that rotates tablet input and
> video correctly, but it's a) driver dependent and b) only supports two
> rotations.  Ideally, Ubuntu would recognize the tablet having been
> converted, and trigger the internal software rotate script to a
> default position, and the rotate button would allow you to cycle among
> options.  I'm stuck on three points: finding out the tablet conversion
> event, reliably gathering the current rotation, and getting Ubuntu to
> recognize the buttons on the tablet itself.
>
> If anyone has resources to share, please reply with them! ^_^
>
> Justin Dugger
>
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