[maemo-developers] Screen orientation

[From: Dave Neary]

Hi,

Bob Murphy at ACCESS has been doing a lot of work on integrating screen
orientation and accelerometers for the GNOME stack - I don't suppose
anyone's had a look at his work here, have they?

Cheers,
Dave.

gary liquid wrote:
> the answer to the identification problem is by querying the xrandr x11
> extension library.
> 
> http://www.xfree86.org/current/Xrandr.3.html
> 
> Kamen correctly points out however that a user with the default installation
> of maemo does not need to query this interface, there is only 1 possible
> default orientation: landscape.
> 
> Future versions of maemo will hopefully have a fully working xrandr
> implementation and allow rotation to be queried and controlled in the
> default system.
> 
> *note to nokians reading, PLEASE make sure this works and also confirm that
> XV rotates correctly as well ;)*
> 
> Gary Birkett (lcuk in #maemo)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Kamen Bundev <bundyo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> BTW, the only possible way I know of to rotate the screen is by using the
>> patched rotation kernel. Not much users know about that.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Kamen Bundev <bundyo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe *gdk_screen_get_width ()* and *gdk_screen_get_height ()* can be
>>> used to detect the screen dimensions?
>>>
>>> Regards:
>>> Bundyo
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Deepak Kr. Sharma, Noida <
>>> deepak.s at hcl.in> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Even if it doesn't have sensors, but the screen orientation can be
>>>> changed by the user or not, like the user has the option to view a video
>>>> in landscape mode?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Deepak
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: maemo at bitblit.net [mailto:maemo at bitblit.net]
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 7:36 PM
>>>> To: Deepak Kr. Sharma, Noida
>>>> Cc: maemo-developers at maemo.org
>>>> Subject: Re: Screen orientation
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Deepak  Kr. Sharma, Noida wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> How do I find out from my application if the current screen
>>>> orientation
>>>>> is landscape or portrait?
>>>> AFAIK, no Maemo device has sensors for that.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Aj.
>>>>
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