Actually it looks pretty simple to me personally. If you want to make it truly newb friendly, hide all the code and package it into a .deb. That way the truly-newb people won't have to think about how it works, and it' won't scare them at all.

Just like swappolube vs manually making a script yourself.

Anyway, I wouldn't make it "simpler", unless there's something in the code that could truly use simplifying. It looks pretty simple enough. I just don't have the knowledge to figure out if the simple looking stuff is actually good.

One thing I HAVE figured out from looking at the script, is you understand DBus. And I just so happen to have a particular shell command that I would like to know, that I know uses DBus.

So, if you don't mind telling me: How do I fetch device orientation (portrait vs landscape) using dbus? Not with python/C/C++/Qt - just from the command-like (so I can stick it into my Conky.conf file for something I've been trying to do). I have this tidbit of python code from the wiki:

This is where I hit a wall, because I know nothing of what to put into the command line (or even if I need to use dbus-send, or dbus-monitor, or some other command), or what options to use, etc. So, while this is off topic, any chance you could help out?