From: Add Contact Tim Ashman "Tim Ashman" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] [email protected] Subject: Re: Disabling the Accelerometer in N900 Previous Next Date: Saturday, December 19, 2009 6:36 AM HTML | Plain Text | Header | Raw Content No problem.
Phone App - set to portrait gPodder - set to landscape Panucci - cant set, filled bug and enhancement request. walking around with my phone causes this app to constantly pause change orientation start again, pause rotate, start = useless however as more apps think this is cool I dont want to fight it, I just want to turn it off period. Is there a way? tim -------- Original Message -------- > From: Tim Samoff <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, December 19, 2009 5:46 AM > To: [email protected], [email protected], Tim Ashman > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Disabling the Accelerometer in N900 > > Hi, > > ----- Original message ----- > > Message: 1 > > Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:18:20 -0800 > > From: Tim Ashman <[email protected]> > > Subject: Disabling the Accelerometer in N900 > > To: [email protected] > > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > > Is there a way to disable the Accelerometer. I find it extremely annoying > > and > > unproductive for my apps to keep switch being portrait and landscape. Some > > of them allow me to set the orientation some don't. > > > > If there isn't a "user" way of doing this I'm not opposed to messing with > > the > > init.d scripts to stop the service from starting. > > > > thank you > > > > tim > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Sorry, but I'm confused. Which apps are youusing that support the > accelerometer for rotation? > > Out-of-the-box, the only app that does this is the Phone app -- in which > rotation support can be turned off in the settings. > > There are community apps in Extras and Extras-testing that support it, but > they may have different (or even broken) functionality, depending on where > they come from. > > Xournal and Conboy are two apps that are in Extras, so they should be stable > to use. But, the rotation support may not have the same settings > functionality. In this case, pleasde lodge enhancement requests for the apps > at http://bugs.maemo.org. That doesn't mean you'll get what you ask for, but > it is the official method of asking for changes. > > Still, that's only three apps... What are you finding so annoying? How many > apps is this happening to you for? > > Sorry for the questioning, but in discussing an OS that only officially > supports accelerometer-based rotation in one application, I'm honestly > curious where your issues are stemming from. > > Thanks, > Tim > > -- > > http://samoff.com _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
