On Thursday 27 November 2008, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:53:01 +0000 Al Johnson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > babbled: > > On Thursday 27 November 2008, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > > On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:04:03 +0300 "Alexander Chemeris" > > > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: > > > > 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 PrĂ¼nster > > > > >> > > > > >> <[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. > > > > > > nothing to do with illume. this is x. apps draw their own window > > > contents and handle their own window even inputs. the app would need to > > > rotate its own draws and translate all input even co-ordinates. > > > > I was thinking of a window manager plugin that applies rotation when the > > window is activated. Compiz can apply many of its effects selectively > > according to application (window name?) so I'm guessing wildly that > > calling an xrandr setting by name on change of active window should be > > possible. Then again I know nothing abut the internals of window > > managers... > > that would require xevie (so every mouse event go through the compositor > and it can try translate (rotate them), so you will add more latency to > mouse events), and compositing (which will slow down rendering as all > rendering now has to happen to a backing pixmap) AND you will not have > accelerated rotates/transforms as xrender is unaccelerated on glamo - so > your output will become nice and slow... really slow.
I hadn't even considered that approach on this hardware. Not a nice thought. > as such you could selectively rotate thew WHOLE screen if a particular > window is focused, but e has no such code - a module could be written that > does just that. but then the keyboard, top-bar etc. will also rotate. That's what I was thinking of. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community