whitespace pressed via x11 keyboards triggers screen rotation

[norayr]

so okay, i am using coolkbd (diejuse reported the same with onboard).
that's an onscreen keyboard developed by my friend. he even added maemo docked mode.

his keyboard has 3 modes. it can cover the screen from up, from down, and it is able to resize active window and fit under it (i think he described it as maemo toolbar mode).

this is how it looks, this is the keyboard in the docked mode. i write 'in docked mode'.

when i press whitespace, screen rotates.

then it rotates back next time i press whitespace.

it happens with all the programs, not only xterm, it happens with dino, and everything which has input field.

maybe important: when i press the upper left corner button to minimize the window and see all applications, and then press 'whitespace' the view of minimized apps disappears, and i see just the screen wallpaper.

before pressing whitespace

after pressing whitespace

i connected that keyboard to the power button with xbindkeys, so when i press the power button on pinephone, the keyboard appears, then it disappears (gets killed).

 $ cat ~/.xbindkeysrc
# Bind power button to a script
"/home/user/coolkbd/maemo/sw.sh"
    m:0x0 + c:124

 $ cat /home/user/coolkbd/maemo/sw.sh 
#!/bin/bash

set -e
set -x

ROOT="$(cd `dirname "$0"`; pwd)"
cd "$ROOT"

#ST=`pgrep coolkbd`
if ! pgrep -f coolkbd.dock
then
  ./coolkbd.dock
else
  pkill coolkbd.dock
fi

how to build coolkbd.

git clone https://repo.coolbug.org/bw/coolkbd
cd  coolkbd
bash build.sh
cd maemo
bash build.sh

that will create 3 keyboards: coolkbd.top, coolkbd,bottom, coolkbd,dock
the biggest problem is that in landspace mode, if the onscreen keyboard is used/sized comfortably, there is not enough space for the app in the upper part of the screen.

sometimes these modes are useful, but most of the times i use the coolkbd.dock.

so portrait mode is indeed more convenient for using onscreen keyboard. right now our keyboard takes 1/3 of the screen in portrait mode and is very convenient.

using maemo without hardware keyboard (with our maemo keyboard) is practically impossible. and i really want/need to use it with pinephone. with this keyboard it not only becomes usable, we get the experience like we have in most of mobile linux distributions, or like in android or ios.

the problem is that the whitespace triggers hildon screen rotation.

you don't need to do xbindkeys or something.

you can ssh to the phone, and do

cd ~/coolkbd/maemo
DISPLAY=:0  ./coolkbd.dock

and play with it. it also correctly preserves its size when rotating.

[norayr]

as it is seen on the screenshots, orientation lock applet is used, i tried to lock orientation in portrait, and still it rotates.

i also was able to check that

 $ gconftool-2 --get /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/ui_can_rotate
false
 $ gconftool-2 --get /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/orientation_lock
true

[norayr]

so i removed hidlon-input-method from xsession

mv Xsession.post/25hildon-input-method-configurator /root

and now whitespace works with my keyboard.

// suggested by arno11