i seriously need some help with sliderotate for nokia n810. i looked at the fourms for installing this but they were no help. i installed sliderotate and whenever i close and open the keypad, the sliderotate control panel shows up but the screen does not rotate. can someone please help me find out how to make the screen rotate on my nokia n810.

You need to install the screen rotation application before you install sliderotate,
sliderotate is like an add-on that tells the screen when to rotate but not how to rotate.

Here is how to install screen rotation.
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=194

After you have done this then you can install sliderotate.

i installed it and it works but there are some problems. everything is scrunched toghter as shown in the screenshots and is cut off. can anyone please fix this?

That "scrunching" is actually normal.

The bigger problem is rotate is that [for me] it breaks often and also a lot of the guides don't work for the newest Diablo release.

Rotation is unfortunately not officially supported. You may want to uncheck any toolbar applets that you don't need if the overlap is problematic (limited room; title bars preallocate space). Also I know someone was working on a vertical fullscreen onscreen "finger" keyboard but I don't what came of it.

There is another built-in keyboard that can be chosen: Settings>Control Panel>Text Input Settings>On-screen>Launch finger keyboard set to "With finger" instead of "With finger and stylus".

I think Personal Launcher would help with the Applications menu problem.

It's unfortunate we don't have proper rotation support (even have to flash a modified kernel to get it working which has bricked my device on more than one occasion -- requiring usb flash)

Good luck

I had it installed too but I still don't see its benefit!
Why do we need it?