On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 2:39 AM, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:43:49 +0300 "Alexander Chemeris" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: >> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Bernd Prünster >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Alexander Chemeris schrieb: >> >> Is there any possibility to rotate screen for a selected application? >> >> Now I use "xrandr -o 1 && app && xrandr -o 0" to run application >> >> in landscape mode, but this rotates screen for the whole system. >> >> I rather want to rotate single application window. >> >> >> > sure it is, just make shellscript which does the rotation, then launches >> > the application an then rotates tzhe screen back. you can also change >> > the keycode for the aux button just for one application in the same way! >> > (just look at the scummvm wiki page if you want to have a good example!) >> >> That's exactly what I'm doing - "xrandr -o 1 && app && xrandr -o 0" >> But this change screen orientation for the whole X. If you tap on the >> top, choose "Home", you'll see it also rotated. What I'm asking for >> is an ability to rotate a single aplpication, leaving illume and other >> apps in portrait orientation. >> >> Btw, thanks for pointing to ScummVM, I should try this. :) > > you will need to make the app itself handle its own rotated drawing. it's up > to > the app.
That's what I expected. I wonder why there are still no such feature in illume. A handful of applications want this. -- Regards, Alexander Chemeris. SIPez LLC. SIP VoIP, IM and Presence Consulting http://www.SIPez.com tel: +1 (617) 273-4000 _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
