2009/11/10 Warren Baird <wjba...@alumni.uwaterloo.ca>: > I meant that it should *constrain* the behaviour of rotation - more or less > like omnewrotate behaves now, but skipping over the two 'incorrect' > orientations. > > so if the app says 'landscape', it's still flip between xrandr -o 1 and > xrandr -o 3 as you rotate the phone, but won't flip to xrandr -o 0 or xrandr > -o 2. > > I don't think it will normally makes sense for an application to > specficially request 'xrandr -o 3' - they will usually just want to be sure > that they are displayed in portrait or landscape mode.
This subtlety hadn't occurred to me before, but I actually have a use case for it! I have an in-car phone holder that happens to work better with the phone upside down, so that the USB connection can be on the left. So yes, it would be better if a "prefers-portrait" app (like tangogps) could be shown in either -o 0 or -o 2, depending on actual phone position. Neil _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community