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[Vincenzo Ciancia <ciancia@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Il giorno mar, 20/05/2008 alle 19.01 -0500, Justin Dugger ha scritto:
> Hi!

> 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.

What do you mean with "driver dependent"? That you use xsetwacom?

>   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, 

This should be possible using xrandr, am I missing the point?

> and getting Ubuntu to
> recognize the buttons on the tablet itself.
> 

Did you try xev and see if they already send a signal? On my toshiba
m400 they do.

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