The xrandr deb I pointed you to will rotate the screen like Advanced Backl... crap, it won't rotate the keys; xmodmap is required for that. ukki wrote a quick program from the AB source for Knots. I'll try and find it later. Run xkbd with an '&' (w/out quotes) on the end but run GVM like normal. After the line that runs GVM, add "kill $!" which should stop the last program we backgrounded - i.e. XKBD.