Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP1 - GNOME 23-05-2007, Manual

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To configure the keyboard or to access the integrated help, click the xvkbd field at the left lower
corner to open the xvkbd main menu.
Figure E-1
xvkbd Virtual Keyboard
If you want to use xvkbd after login, start it from the main menu or with xvkbd from a shell.
E.3.2 Rotating Your Display
When rotating your Tablet PC monitor, the orientation of your display and of your graphics tablet is
not automatically adjusted. For the KDE desktop, use KRandRTray to rotate or resize your display
manually on the fly. KRandRTray is a KDE applet for the RANDR extension of the X server.
1
Start KRandRTray from the main menu or with krandrtray from a shell. This adds the
KRandRTray icon to your system tray.
2 To rotate your display, click the icon and select the desired orientation from the context menu.
Your display is immediately tilted to the new direction. Also the orientation of the graphics
tablet changes so it can still interpret the movement of the pen correctly.
For the GNOME desktop, a similar functionality can currently only be provided by a work-around.
See
“Troubleshooting” on page 279 for more information.
E.3.3 Using Gesture Recognition
With xstroke, you can use gestures with your pen or other pointing devices as input for applications
on the X Window System. The xstroke alphabet is a unistroke alphabet that resembles the Graffiti*
alphabet. When activated, xstroke sends the input to the currently focused window.
1
Start xstroke from the main menu or with xstroke from a shell. This adds a pencil icon to
your system tray.
2 Start the application for which you want to create text input with the pen (for example, a
terminal window, a text editor, or OpenOffice.org Writer).
3 To activate gesture recognition mode, click the pencil icon once.
4
Perform some gestures on the graphics tablet with the pen or another pointing device. xstroke
captures the gestures and transfers them to text that appears in the application window that has
the focus.
5
To switch focus to a different window, click the desired window with the pen and hold for a
moment (or use the keyboard shortcut defined in your desktop's control center).
6 To deactivate the gesture recognition mode, click the pencil icon again.