Rotation is fine if you are running Gnome as your primary desktop, which of course is the name of this thread, and so you are perfectly right in suggesting it. However, If you are using a nested X server like me, Mr. Thread Hijacker over here, it gets more complicated. Sure, I can rotate the Gnome desktop, but it doesn't rotate the stylus clicks, so suddenly I can't tap on anything on the screen...

If I try to rotate the OS2008 screen and then go back to my alternate desktop, the desktop has the right rotation, but it only fills the top half of the screen, and it goes off to the right somewhere. In other words, it changes orientation, but not dimensions. I think there is no fix for this, unfortunately.

The guy who wrote Xephyr, Matthew Allum, will be at the Maemo Summit in September. I want to get a "posse" to go and beg him to add some tablet-specific stuff to the server, like pressure sensitivity and scrollbars.