That is, turned on its side so the display is vertical, using an external keyboard. I’m thinking of getting one of the Yoga models, which are naturally suited to that. I run primarily browsers, emacs, and maybe calibre, under Debian GNU/Linux. My questions:
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Any issues getting the X server to work that way?
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Any issues with cables having to stick out of the edges and poke things? At minimum a power cable, but i like to use Ethernet instead of WiFi when I can.
Thanks!
Hell yeah!
L390 Yoga, in portrait mode as a book reader with Arianna app.
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Yesn’t. It works, but not quite with a touchscreen. It emulates a mouse pointer. A pressed down mouse pointer. You can’t even scroll in browser, and I haven’t gotten maliit-keyboard to work under X11, but it may work with some effot. Also, Plasma doesn’t adjust to tablet mode under X11 (larger buttons and taskbar icon spacing).
It’s just a mess, under X11.
But why use that, Wayland works beautifully. No emulated mouse pointer, it actually properly works as touchscreen. You can use virtual keyboard, scroll like you’d scroll stuff on a phone, it adjusts to tablet mode properly. -
Well, you can turn it either way, but if resting it against something you can obviously only use the top side.
I haven’t tried if long press and 2 finger zoom work under X11, but I doubt the latter would work.
Interesting, thanks. I hadn’t even thought about Wayland. I’ve been using MATE and it runs X by default. I wonder if I can change that. I’ve never used Wayland and don’t know much about it.
I’ve never had trouble using a USB keyboard with X. I don’t think X realizes there are two keyboards. Bluetooth might be different.
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