Screen orientation and backlight sensing for the Nexus 7

Jani Monoses jani at ubuntu.com
Wed Jan 30 13:59:10 UTC 2013


On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 19:22:46 +0000, Jani Monoses wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:00:00 +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> 
>> hi,
>> 
>> i just uploaded http://paste.ubuntu.com/1555763/ which should do for
>> now, it would be great if someone could re-implement /usr/bin/acceld in
>> actual C .. polling like that from a shell script adds some CPU
>> overhead that we could avoid ...
> 
> I am looking into what it takes to add this functionality to gnome-
> settings-daemon that already has support for screen orientation and a
> certain type of accelerometer. If that does not work out without being
> too intrusive we should look into making this into C as you suggest.

This is the current status. I'll probably upload the g-s-d equivalent of 
the shell script today.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-nexus7/+bug/1110360/comments/2

Jani




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