XRandR: Screen Rotation animation effect

[Corbin Simpson]

Bipin George Mathew wrote:
> Corbin,
> 
> I agree that any transition effect belongs in the compositor. But we
> have two exclusive methods here to achieve screen rotation
> 1) the windows are rotated by the compositor-the one thing to note here
> is that the xserver currently does not allow mouse inputs to be
> redirected, even if visually the windows are rotated.
> 2) the xserver itself does the rotation by talking to the driver ( using
> xrandr)
> 
> I guess the best way would be to show the transition using the
> compositor and then use xrandr to do the rotation (if the driver issue
> can be fixed and prevent the flicker as Keith pointed out).
> Comments?

You took the words right out of my mouth. (Well, figuratively.)

Do the xrandr rotation first, to make sure that it succeeds. Then, if it
does, the compositor could do its funky effects. With proper driver
support for flicker-free rotate, that should work.

~ C.