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Denial doesn't mean

Denial doesn't mean

Posted Dec 23, 2015 5:39 UTC (Wed) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
In reply to: Denial doesn't mean by LightDot
Parent article: Android on the desktop: Not really “good,” but better than you’d think (Ars Technica)

I'm using Ubuntu on a Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga. Everything works. My setup is XFCE with the i3 window manager. There is a python script online to automatically rotate the screen by reading accelerometer events, but I found that tedious so have two manual "rotate" buttons (cw and ccw) on the xfce panel, plus set up keyboard shortcuts for the same. Drag-scrolling on the touchscreen works with Evince, Google Chrome and other software (though not Firefox -- there's an extension for it, but if you enable it then mouse-select ceases to work!) The built-in stylus works very nicely too. It's not "convergence" in that it's not really a mobile device (doesn't have telephony functions) but it works pretty well as a tablet computer when you want to read something in portrait format.

I have convergence with my phone though -- a chrooted linux desktop and a foldable bluetooth keyboard. I have actually written documents and presentations that way.


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