I have recently acquired an older tablet PC (Acer TravelMate C100). I am looking to create a mobile workpad out of it as a proof of concept for some upcoming projects...
I have Xubuntu installed on it (Fedora threw a temper-tantrum because of the limited RAM) and it is recognizing the stylus, but when I rotate the screen into tablet mode the touchpad and stylus inputs freak out - is there any way to tell the two of them to rotate their inputs by 90 degrees (I am probably just not seeing the correct control)?
I am hoping to bring it on Wed. to the LUG meeting to see if I can get some more accomplished with it.
Thanks, Michael Haworth
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On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 14:02, Haworth, Michael A. [email protected] wrote:
I have Xubuntu installed on it (Fedora threw a temper-tantrum because of the limited RAM)
Fedora did? or a full Gnome desktop did?
Did you try the LXDE Fedora spin? Or standard Ubuntu?
I hope you aren't comparing a complete distribution with the "light edition" of another.
No idea though on the tablety stuff. xrandr is the program that does dynamic x11 reshaping and redefining inputs and such. Make sure it's installed, and its module is loaded by x11. Then read a bit on all the command line options to xrandr, and play with it a little.
If when you physically rotate the screen around on its pivot, the x11 screen rotates 90 degrees, then look for a hal or udev or .fdi file that defines that behavior, and add to it the corresponding behavior for rotating the tablet input.
I use the following script on my toshiba tabletPC. Not sure if yours is a wacom device though.
#!/bin/sh rotation=`xrandr -q --verbose | grep "^LVDS-0 connected" | cut -d" " -f5`
case "$rotation" in 'normal') xrandr -o inverted xsetwacom set stylus rotate half ;; 'inverted') xrandr -o left xsetwacom set stylus rotate 2 ;; 'left') xrandr -o right xsetwacom set stylus rotate 1 ;; 'right' ) xrandr -o normal xsetwacom set stylus rotate 0 ;; esac
Justin
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Haworth, Michael A. [email protected] wrote:
I have recently acquired an older tablet PC (Acer TravelMate C100). I am looking to create a mobile workpad out of it as a proof of concept for some upcoming projects...
I have Xubuntu installed on it (Fedora threw a temper-tantrum because of the limited RAM) and it is recognizing the stylus, but when I rotate the screen into tablet mode the touchpad and stylus inputs freak out - is there any way to tell the two of them to rotate their inputs by 90 degrees (I am probably just not seeing the correct control)?
I am hoping to bring it on Wed. to the LUG meeting to see if I can get some more accomplished with it.
Thanks,
Michael Haworth
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