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YaST module installation
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Allow easy screen rotation at earliest opportunity. #1080

Closed RokeJulianLockhart closed 1 year ago

RokeJulianLockhart commented 1 year ago

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1208003 has allowed OpenSUSE to be installable on my LINX 1010 tablet. However, during installation, the display is rotated -90 degrees (to the left) which causes installation to be unnecessarily difficult because the trackpad of the connected keyboard does not account for this rotation despite it obviously being the firmware's default.

I propose that the first page of the installer become a simple dialog asking whether the screen should be rotated, and by how much. I recommend that it be its own page because it would allow keyboard navigation to be convenient.

shundhammer commented 1 year ago

Hell, no, not another question. There are way too many already. This would be optimizing for the weird case.

shundhammer commented 1 year ago

For this special weird case, it might be an option to change to the shell running on console 2 with Ctrl-Alt-F2 and issue some xrandr command to rotate the screen (switch back to the GUI with Ctrl-Alt-F2).

RokeJulianLockhart commented 1 year ago

For this special weird case, it might be an option to change to the shell running on console 2 with Ctrl-Alt-F2

It's a tablet; a touchscreen device. You shouldn't expect the user to have a keyboard attached.

issue some xrandr command to rotate the screen

The screen being rotated the wrong way is a bug...

Hell, no, not another question. There are way too many already.

...regardless of the solution I proposed being undesirable to you. Are you certain that this isn't worth being fixed?