On 5/5/19 7:23 PM, Tim Wescott wrote:
My kid saw a need, and filled it.
I don't know if the Linux tablet world needs this, but if it does, he
and I need help figuring out how to promote it.
Synopsis: It's an automatic screen rotator, such as every self-
respecting phone has. James has found a somewhat lame version that's
written in Python and that only rotates applications on the desktop,
not the desktop itself.
This is written in two parts: a Rust daemon that calculates the
orientation of the computer and makes it available in a file, and a
(quite small) script that interfaces between the daemon and X to
accomplish the screen rotation.
https://youtu.be/39ocJu-t2bA
https://github.com/rantingpirate/spinnrd
A screenrotater like that would be a feature within the Desktop
environment. Like an option in desktop settings or something like that,
so you would want to hook it into the window manager.
There are several linux phone/tablet environments. Currently it all has
to piggyback on android but there are efforts to remove our dependency
on chinese hardware.
here are some starting links for insight on projects where this feature
would be most useful
Plasma Mobile - https://www.plasma-mobile.org/
Ubuntu Touch - https://ubuntu-touch.io/
See if this is a feature they need help with. I only mention Ubuntu
Touch for research purposes (I recommend against using any distro that
sells themselves out to MS) however it does give you some idea of the
state of mobile distros, and where to look to add your features.
Another option is the RasPi community. This would be a nifty feature on
small ARM boards. Post the github link on an appropriate forum and you
will probably gather interest. I know Plasma already has a mechanism to
rotate the screen but a DE agnostic version is always welcome.
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