rotate button sucks on the XO

[NoiseEHC]

pgf at laptop.org wrote:
> while i can understand the frustration when something that seems
> simple and obvious doesn't work, starting wout with "XXXX sucks"
> probably isn't the best way to get people to listen to your issues.
>   
 From my experience, it is the most straightforward way to get some 
reply to my mostly arcane questions... :) I am sorry if I offended people.
> how do other people feel about this problem?  are there any good
> reasons to _not_ make the touchpad rotate with the screen?  (i
> actually think this might be an almost, but not quite, trivial
> addition to the grab key daemon i mentioned to the list last
> week.  matching the touchpad "orientation" to the orientation
> of the screen initially would be the tricky part -- if they were
> out of sync, it'd be a real drag.)
>   
Unfortunately I do not have enough linux programming experience to do 
this otherwise I would have been already done that.
> noiseehc wrote:
>  > Hello!
>  > 
>  > Just today I have noticed some things about the rotate button (which is 
>  > below the directional buttons on the display part):
>  > 1. When the screen is rotated the mouse does not so if I turn the XO to 
>  > be able to read letters, I cannot navigate with the mouse.
>  > 2. An Xvideo RGB overlay displays the big nothing (black) while the 
>  > screen is rotated.
>  > 
>  > If somebody will fix it to be usable then it would be a good idea to 
>  > program the rotate button so that holding pressed for 2 seconds would 
>  > turn on-off the backlight (color to mono and back).
>
> is this simply to make the backlight controllable from ebook mode?
> because shift-increase and shift-decrease (or is it ctrl?) accomplish
> this pretty simply now.
>   
Yes, it would be just for the ebook mode. I think it is a more sane 
proposition than for example overloading the power button with extra 
functionality.
> paul
> =---------------------
>  paul fox, pgf at laptop.org
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