nanogui: Thread: Re: [linuxce-devel] Re: [Handhelds] Re: Small open source web browser introduced

Keith Packard's been hacking on code to enable the X server to let you 
rotate the screen to any of the 4 normal rotations. I've been able to 
see that all 4 positions potentially have uses...  (I'd wondered about 
upside down, but then realized I could use a IR keyboard pointing at the 
IR port on the iPAQ, and the last of the four fell into place).

With an accelerometer (e.g. rock and scroll), we'll be able to do hacks
like have the screen automatically stay upright as you rotate the hardware...
:-)
				- Jim
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 17:56:18 +0100 (BST)
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Subject: [linuxce-devel] Re: [Handhelds] Re: Small open source web browser
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> Also, the GTK+ folks have not been very responsive nor interested
> in working with the Microwindows project, and we wanted to have

I dont think they understand it either. Talking to someone who is working
on gtk raw framebuffer and finding out he didnt even know most pda screens
were portrait mode wasnt promising

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> Keith Packard's been hacking on code to enable the X server to let you 
> rotate the screen to any of the 4 normal rotations.

The regular XFree86 server already has such code; I was planning on
building a more CPU efficient version to make it consume no more joules
than in the regular orientation.  The XFree86 code shadows the frame 
buffer and periodically blts large chunks to the screen.  That's an easy 
way of doing things, but rather wasteful when we expect people will 
usually use the screen rotated in one direction or another.

I'm working right now on a new X rendering system; rotating iPaq screens 
is on hold (no, I'm really not waiting for an iPaq to arrive.  Honest.)

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