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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
Section D.4, “Troubleshooting” (page 335) for more information.
D.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.
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