small correction; in ledclock one can override the rotation On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Yorick Moko <[email protected]> wrote: > i'm just responding to confirm that some apps also don't work > correctly with omnewrotate installed > mokoeightball is one of them; > after installing omnewrotate and rebooting, shaking the phone does not > work with mokoeightball > apps like the ledclock (http://www.opkg.org/package_104.html) displays > by default in landscape mode, but turning the phone to landscape makes > the teks adapt itself and displays in normal mode > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:36:29AM +0100, Thomas Otterbein wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> > > I plan to have a toggling script for use in the desktop icon, instead of >>> > > a starter script. >>> > >>> > This is the sort of thing that might be useful to have on the illume top >>> > shelf. autototate on/off, and "rotate now" when auto is off. >>> > >>> > Rotation is useful with maps. It depends on what the region look like. >>> > Also, it is easier to but the phone down on the long edge in a car. >>> > I can see how autorotation would be a problem in a game. Pingus works >>> > in either orientation, but several guys walk of the cliffs while the >>> > screen repaints. >>> >>> >>> to my opinion the default auto-rotation software should have some signaling >>> mechanism that keeps it from doing it's job while a certain software is >>> active. You can experience this with the later versions of MPlayer. It tells >>> the Screensaver not to activate during movie playback. I figure the >>> screensaver >>> modules of Desktop-Manager must have appropriate interfaces to accomplish >>> that >>> behaviour. >> >> Yes, I'm thinking of catching SIGUSR1 for that. Anything that wants to >> toggle it just pkill -USR1 omnewrotate in the near future. >> >> Rui >> >> -- >> Grudnuk demand sustenance! >> Today is Pungenday, the 13th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3175 >> + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown >> + Whatever you do will be insignificant, >> | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi >> + So let's do it...? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Openmoko community mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >> >
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