I find this very useful but I think it's draining my battery. Consistently since I've
installed this my tablet dies overnight. Watching in top, I can see sliderotate
continuously using approx 0.1%-0.9% CPU which can make a big impact on battery life.
Anyone else seeing this?

In version 0.0.22 there is the option to use sounds when opening the slide.
This is very poorly implemented and causes the high cpu usage.
I am now testing the next version, which hopefully solves this problem.
Note: it does not matter whether the sounds are turned off, since the
pygame.mixer is still initiated.

The version I am now testing, will unload the mixer if sounds are not enabled, which sound stop the battery drain.

I will make the new version available today so you can test it.

For the impatient: version 0.0.21 should not have this issue.

New version: 0.0.23diablo.

-If sounds are not used, the mixer is uninitialized, battery drain should stop.
-If sounds are used, well, until I figure a better way to handle it, the battery will drain faster. Your choice.

-fixed the typo in sliderotatesettings.
"Use portrait mode when slide is opened", now reads "Use landscape mode...." like it should.

Question: Does anyone remember the dbus-send magic to bring up the menu that you normally get when pressing the power button?

I would like to make the powerbutton behave like normal if the checkbox "Use powerbutton to rotate" is unchecked.

I used to know that, but seem to have forgotten it and Google was not helpful enough this time.

Arg, using dbus-monitor --system only returns me the value for the Hal device which I am sure you do not want.

I have a little leaked file from Nokia that should help me in this mission, brb.

Perhaps I should have searched the intranet at work then

Arrgh, my dbus "skills" really suckzors.

I have been able to find the following: com.nokia.system_ui.request.powerkeymenu_open

Don't know if that helps or if I am barking up the wrong tree. I'll keep trying but hopefully you will figure it out

Seems like this could be it. I must fiddle with it tomorrow to see if it works.

I installed .23diablo, disabled sounds and things are looking good. Thanks for the effort on this. Sliderotate really helps me get more from my n810.

Whenever I rotate, the screen just kind of moves to the side. I can see new icons from the taskbar appear next to the old ones, but the screen itself doesn't actually flip. I'm trying to reinstall xrandr-kernel right now.

That fixed it. Awesome!