Cool! I'm looking forward to trying this when I get back to my XO....<div> </div><div>I wonder though, is there a reason this has to be a separate daemon, and can't just being part of the HPGK driver with a /sys/... interface for control? </div><div>Best,</div><div>Wade</div><div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 4:45 PM, <<a href="mailto:pgf@laptop.org">pgf@laptop.org</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> sorry about that. replying to add a subject... i wrote: > > last week i announced a daemon that would activate the grab keys > on the XO keyboard. > > a day or two later there was a thread about how it would be nice > if the action of the touchpad rotated with the screen (in much the > same way that the dpad keys do). > > since my daemon was already looking at every input event, it seemed > a natural place to implement the rotation feature. > > and after doing that, the name seemed like it should change. > > so, announcing "olpc-kbdshim". > > source: > <a href="http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/pgf/olpc-kbdshim" target="_blank">http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/pgf/olpc-kbdshim</a> > > rpm: > <a href="http://dev.laptop.org/~pgf/rpms/olpc-kbdshim-1-1.i386.rpm" target="_blank">http://dev.laptop.org/~pgf/rpms/olpc-kbdshim-1-1.i386.rpm</a> > > after installing the rpm you need to fully reboot your laptop to > get the plumbing set up properly. > > the rpm includes a new command "olpc-rotate" which takes care of > all the mechanics of screen and touchpad rotation. since sugar > (currently) handles this key binding, the rpm postinstall script > patches /usr/share/sugar/shell/view/keyhandler.py so that it > invokes os.system("olpc-rotate") _instead_ of its current builtin > behavior. separating it out like this makes olpc-kbdshim and > olpc-rotate more useful for non-sugar UIs. i wrote the sugar > patch so that it won't break if you uninstall the olpc-kbdshim > rpm -- sugar will take over the rotate function again. also, > though i haven't tried it on today's brand-new sugar 0.84 (good > work everyone!), a look at the current keyhandler.py says the patch > should still apply correctly. > > the topic of ebook-mode touchpad usage came up the other day too. > while i didn't create any visible UI support for it, the daemon > will put the touchpad in and out of ebook-mode (which means, > reflecting it on both x and y axes) using "olpc-rotate -e/-n" > > please let me know what you think... > > paul > > p.s. btw, the daemon isn't really very olpc-specific. i've been > running it on my thinkpad all week, in order to get the use of > the grab key scrolling. the thinkpad doesn't have Windows keys > (which is what the XO grab keys are), but it turns out the blue > Fn key in the corner can be used as a modifier, so that plus my > trackstick gives 2D scrolling -- it came in very handy for > looking at the bootchart images this morning. > =--------------------- paul fox, <a href="mailto:pgf@laptop.org">pgf@laptop.org</a> _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> </blockquote></div> </div>