GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 402657
Screen rotating doesn't rotate wacom styleto
Last modified: 2009-02-26 01:14:45 UTC
Please describe the problem: All is in the summary, when rotating the screen, the styleto is still using the normal referential to calculate it's coordinates so it's completly wrong and it's hard to manipulate. It would be cool if gnome-display-properties would take care of it. I'll try to provide a patch ASAP. Here is a link picked up on kde planet to similar patch for kde desktop (so if someone wants to do it faster than me (s)he can look at it) http://beta.suse.com/private/dkukawka/tabletPC/KDE-Patches/kdebase3.5-rotate-wacom-pointers.diff Steps to reproduce: Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? Other information:
Is the screen resolution capplet really the best place to fix this? Wouldn't it be better to fix this in the X drivers, or the RandR extension itself?
- KDE does this this way (not a good argument, I know :)). - the styleto driver already supports rotating, it just don't get signaled by xrandr or whatever that the screen has be rotated - xrandr probably don't care about input rotation and wacom is problably the only driver that can do this. Anyway, I'll ask xorg-devel mailing list to get their thoughts.
xorg ml doesn't seem very responsive to my questions...
after talking to xorg dev that did xorg myths and nouveau presentation at fosdem, it would probably be better if the gui would do it. What do you think ?
If all that needs to happen is the driver to be signaled when the screen is rotated, this sounds like something that should be done in HAL, or some other deamon.
The GNOME stack is not the correct place to fix this. This should be done in the input layer of the X server. However, for now we have this hack available; it makes gnome-settings-daemon call xsetwacom(1) when a monitor rotates: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/distributor-list/2009-February/msg00000.html