Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - GNOME 08-05-2008 Manual page 354

2 To rotate your display, click the icon and select the desired orientation from the
For the GNOME desktop, a similar functionality can currently only be provided by a
work-around. See
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
2 Start the application for which you want to create text input with the pen (for
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
5 To switch focus to a different window, click the desired window with the pen
6 To deactivate the gesture recognition mode, click the pencil icon again.
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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.
Section E.4, "Troubleshooting"
pencil icon to your system tray.
example, a terminal window, a text editor, or OpenOffice.org Writer).
device. xstroke captures the gestures and transfers them to text that appears in
the application window that has the focus.
and hold for a moment (or use the keyboard shortcut defined in your desktop's
control center).
(page 345) for more information.