I have plans to work on improving my tablets configuration and
creating/modifying packages to automatically configuring my tablet for
me.  Is there a project page where we can create a tablet support
project, if one does not already exist, and add in all of these
instructions there and also have a place share ideas/code we've done to
get these things working to their fullest extent?

Due to the way the start-stop-daemon works, it does not allow for the
passing of a signal on the start line.  That could be modified though,
or a wrapper script could be written to interact with the rotate_daemon
to start/stop it using signals.  The question I have is, what is the
cost of terminating it and restarting it versus putting it to sleep?  Is
it even an issue?  What I mean by that is when someone puts their laptop
into tablet mode, they will probably leave it there for a long period of
time until they are done with the laptop, and the same would go for
using it in laptop mode.  I know my common usage is laptop mode due to
the lack of tablet usability under Linux.  I only go into tablet mode
when I am reading something.  I'm looking forward to KDE4 as they are
taking into consideration touchscreen interfaces with their design of
the desktop, which as a side will improve tablet usage as well, at least
in the tablet screen configurations.  I use Linux 100% of the time on my
X61t, so I would love to get everything working and have it easy to set
up.  I'm very willing to invest time into improving this stuff.  The
problem I know right now is that until the X input device support
improves, which it is at a fast rate, some of the configuration might
remain difficult for a few more releases.

One thing that should be added to these swivel scripts, is the keypad
rotation.  I know the python script out there handles that, but there is
no reason this swivel script can't be extended to do it as well.
Another thing with the swivel scripts, is a more descriptive name for
them, like thinkpad-swivel-*.sh might be more appropriate as these are
pretty specific to the thinkpad once the rotation daemon gets added to
them.

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Lenovo Thinkpad x41 Tablet and X60 Tablet rotate events
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