Conflict when several apps use the accelerometers?

Rui Miguel Silva Seabra rms at 1407.org
Tue Jan 13 15:05:08 CET 2009


Yes, ledclock works fine if you disable rotation.

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 01:08:24PM +0100, Yorick Moko wrote:
> small correction; in ledclock one can override the rotation
> 
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Yorick Moko <yorickmoko at gmail.com> wrote:
> > i'm just responding to confirm that some apps also don't work
> > correctly with omnewrotate installed
> > mokoeightball is one of them;
> > after installing omnewrotate and rebooting, shaking the phone does not
> > work with mokoeightball
> > apps like the ledclock (http://www.opkg.org/package_104.html) displays
> > by default in landscape mode, but turning the phone to landscape makes
> > the teks adapt itself and displays in normal mode
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms at 1407.org> wrote:
> >> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:36:29AM +0100, Thomas Otterbein wrote:
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> > > I plan to have a toggling script for use in the desktop icon, instead of
> >>> > > a starter script.
> >>> >
> >>> > This is the sort of thing that might be useful to have on the illume top
> >>> > shelf. autototate on/off, and "rotate now" when auto is off.
> >>> >
> >>> > Rotation is useful with maps. It depends on what the region look like.
> >>> > Also, it is easier to but the phone down on the long edge in a car.
> >>> > I can see how autorotation would be a problem in a game. Pingus works
> >>> > in either orientation, but several guys walk of the cliffs while the
> >>> > screen repaints.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> to my opinion the default auto-rotation software should have some signaling
> >>> mechanism that keeps it from doing it's job while a certain software is
> >>> active. You can experience this with the later versions of MPlayer. It tells
> >>> the Screensaver not to activate during movie playback. I figure the screensaver
> >>> modules of Desktop-Manager must have appropriate interfaces to accomplish that
> >>> behaviour.
> >>
> >> Yes, I'm thinking of catching SIGUSR1 for that. Anything that wants to
> >> toggle it just pkill -USR1 omnewrotate in the near future.
> >>
> >> Rui
> >>
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