Screen rotation on the tablet?

[rei4877]

Heya, I've been using this for a while and it works near perfectly on my Fedora 44 KDE Plasma. But there's an issue on the tablet side of the app, where it locks in just one screen orientation. I can use it for drawing just fine but I'm stuck on just one orientation with camera side up, whereas when I draw it's usually camera side down. Tablet is Galaxy Tab S9 FE. Any time it'll be added soon?

[majmichu1]

Thanks for this — and for mentioning it works on Fedora 44 with a Tab S9 FE; that is the first report from either, so it goes straight into the compatibility list.

You're right about the orientation: the app is pinned to one landscape direction, camera up, which is the wrong way round for the way most people hold a tablet to draw. It's a small change on the app side (allowing both landscape directions, so the tablet flips 180° the way any other app does while the host keeps the same display), and it's already in progress. It will be in the next release together with a fix for input mapping after leaving graphics-tablet mode — soon, once I've run it through on the tablet here. I'll reply here when it's out.

Best,
Majmichu

[majmichu1]

1.2.0 is out with this in it: https://github.com/majmichu1/UScreen/releases/tag/v1.2.0

In the ⚙ sheet on the tablet there is now Rotate automatically, which follows the tilt sensor between the two landscape directions, so camera-down just works when you turn the tablet round. If you would rather it never flipped while you draw, switch it off and pick Camera up or Camera down underneath.

One thing to know: it turned out the system's own sensor mode never rotated my Tab S9 Ultra at all, so the app reads the sensor itself. If your S9 FE behaves differently either way, I'd like to hear it.

Update the Linux side too (this release also fixes a big CPU regression with ffmpeg 8 — if it felt laggy lately, that was it).

Best,
Majmichu