[PLUG] Automatic screen rotation for tablets & phones

Tim Wescott tim at wescottdesign.com
Mon May 6 02:23:05 UTC 2019


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

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Tim Wescott
www.wescottdesign.com
Control & Communications systems, circuit & software design.
Phone: 503.631.7815
Cell:  503.349.8432






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