Magick Rotation for Fujitsu tablet PC's.

[Favux]

I'll answer my own question since I upgraded my HP tablet PC to Pecise yesterday evening.

I see in the Unity plug-in in CCSM (compiz configuration settings manager) that the default selection is to always show the bar although there is an auto-hide option.

However in Unity 2-D auto-hide is apparently the default.

So if you are in Unity you need to un-select auto-hide and select show. For Unity 2-D I don't yet know how you are suppose to change the settings. Maybe a key value somewhere.

In 2-D I see your problem. But for me it occurs when I rotate back to laptop. The launchbar auto-hides and probing for it is finicky, but I am able to get it to pop back out, barely.

[dog-soldier]

im using unity and since my screen isnt all that big i like the auto hide. i like unity now that i have used it for a while but i may need to go back to Gnome2 so i dont have that problem. i just tried it in laptop mode and i have the same problem as in tablet mode so im not sure. i may do a freash install since upgraded from the beta.

[Cobuntu]

Just one little thing I have noticed between upgrade from 11.10 and fresh install with Unity: When you add the Desktop icon to the launcher bar via compiz settings manager, in the upgrade it shows on top of the home button and in the fresh install it shows below the workspaces. Have this noticed on several notebooks so checking out a fresh install could make sense.

[dog-soldier]

Favux
has this been tested on Lubuntu ? the reason im asking is cause im thinking of switching to it or may be Xubuntu not for sure which one yet but Lubuntu runs real good from usb drive

[Favux]

has this been tested on Lubuntu ?

Not sure. I guess that means you could be the Lubuntu tester.

[dog-soldier]

ok , i installed magick rotation and it went as normal.
when i rebooted it wouldnt work so i ran

dogsoldier@dogsoldier-LifeBook-T4210:~$ sudo xxd -g1 /dev/input/magick-rotation
[sudo] password for dogsoldier: 
xxd: /dev/input/magick-rotation: No such file or directory

and as you can see its not there

this is on Lubuntu 12.04

[Favux]

So is the udev rule file 62-magick.rules in /etc/udev/rules.d? In other words does Lubuntu have that directory? Also the install log should show if it was install there.

[dog-soldier]

So is the udev rule file 62-magick.rules in /etc/udev/rules.d? In other words does Lubuntu have that directory? Also the install log should show if it was install there.

i looked in /ect/udev/rules.d and there is no 62-magick.rules. but in the devel folder there is a 62-magick.rules file. i tried to move it to the /ect/udev/rules.d but cant, it says i dont have permission.

[Favux]

You need to be root to modify a system directory or file i.e. /etc/udev/rules.d. So if you change directory to where the .rules file is then:

sudo cp 62-magick.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/62-magick.rules

will copy it to place. Otherwise if you don't change directory type the full path to 62-magick.rules.

[dog-soldier]

ok please bear with me here.

so since 62-magick.rules is in

 /home/dogsoldier/Downloads/magick-rotation/

then i need to do

sudo cp /home/dogsoldier/Downloads/magick-rotation/ 62-magick.rules/etc/udev/rules.d/62-magick.rules

or am i thinking wrong?
when i tried

sudo cp 62-magick.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/62-magick.rules

i get

dogsoldier@dogsoldier-LifeBook-T4210:~$ sudo cp 62-magick.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/62-magick.rules
[sudo] password for dogsoldier: 
cp: cannot stat `62-magick.rules': No such file or directory