p...@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, p...@laptop.org > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > >
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