This cinnamon applet is intended for tablet and convertible users that want to have an easy way of changing screen orientation, orientation lock status, and enabling/disabling of touchpads / trackpoints. At present this is being developed on a Lenovo X1 Yoga.
Rotman allows you to do a couple of things. You can
- rotate your screen and pointing devices by a simple touch of a button
- scale the applet's user interface so it is easier to navigate with a touch device
- automatically disable input devices in tablet-mode (Useful for convertibles like the X1 Yoga where the touchpad ends up at the base of the "tablet" and you don't want to accidentally click somewhere while holding it)
- enable and disable the orientation lock with a simple switch
- use it together with iio-sensor-proxy for auto-rotation goodness
Depending on your device you will need a few prerequisites to get this working. The basic manual rotation functions should work everywhere. If you want automatic accelerometer-based rotation, you need iio-sensor-proxy by hadess. Depending on your distribution, getting it might be as convenient as typing apt-get install iio-sensor-proxy. You will of course need the cinnamon desktop environment as this is a cinnamon applet (duh!).
Copy the rotman@evilphish folder inside of the files directory into your app directory. Depending on your setup this might be one of
~/.local/share/cinnamon/applets/
/usr/share/cinnamon/applets/
Probably some... please let me know. Also I would appreciate "works / does not work" reports for tablets / convertibles other than the Lenovo X1 Yoga.
- Lenovo X1 Yoga (2nd Gen)