Rotate X window

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ive been researching on how to enable screen rotation and it seems X always needs to restart. I was thinking and not sure if its possible, but the idea would be to have a rotate button in the titlebar. When pressed it would rotate that X window by 90...

is this possible? would be trully helpful for tablet owners..

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him

14 years ago

Please make such a button!
I really need something like "magic rotation"(Windows) for KDE. My ATI drivers (in Kubuntu) cant rotate the screen via "graphical-button". In in Windows it was possible. Please forgive my bad englsh!

Gruß
HiM

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jtate

14 years ago

Does the KRandRTray utility not work for you? I don't have a tablet, and I don't think my driver supports rotation, but it's advertised to rotate. It works very well for resizing, so I'd imagine that rotation would work well also.

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cr8

14 years ago

unfortunately spits out errors, and I havent come across a tutorial that has worked for me...

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Superstoned

14 years ago

krandr works fine for me... you have to enable the randr extention in Xorg.conf (google for it) and it'll work fine.

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cr8

14 years ago

randr is setup correctly as I can switch resolutions no problem, but it doesnt provide me any rotate options... if i run xrandr says

Rotations possible - normal

i still must be missing something that i cant pinpoint...

any ideas?

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Sann

14 years ago

there is a possibility to rotate the x without restarting xorg. You may google for xrandr. Although this button ist a goog idea, it wouldn't be useful for most users, so i think this should not be implemented to kde. But as an improvment...

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bobuse

14 years ago

Of course it is possible with xrandr without restart X !!
I've wrote this article about it, but sorry it's in french !
http://bobuse.free.fr/blog/index.php/2006/04/26/profiter-de-la-fonction-pivot-de-son-ecran-plat/

My solution is to add a button in the kicker that launch the command :
xrandr | grep "Current rotation - normal" > /dev/null && xrandr -o left || xrandr -o normal

It's simple ! Isn't it ?

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cr8

14 years ago

this is what happens when running your code...

X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 155 (RANDR)
Minor opcode of failed request: 2 (RRSetScreenConfig)
Serial number of failed request: 12
Current serial number in output stream: 12

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bobuse

14 years ago

try to run xrandr in a shell to find an issue ...

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stefbon

14 years ago

Well,

have you heard of Xgl and Xegl? With these new techniques it's very possible.

Only: not so good integration with kde-3.5, but as far I can see much better with kde-4.

Better support in gnome. There are a lot videos on the net where you can see what's possible.

Stef

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cr8

14 years ago

indeed its a wonderful application.. i cant imagine how it would function using a slate and 855gm chipset...

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sebas_double

14 years ago

It should be possible with Qt4, with pure X, you can only rotate the whole screen at once AFAIK.

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