General update!

[thalass]

So things have been pretty good lately, aside from the fact that we're still living at my mum's house and the people building our house haven't seemed all that interested in our business. But it progresses slowly, so hopefully about nine months from now we'll have our own house

Comments

[aoanla]

What particular things that require root access are you trying to do?

Ubuntu (and many other modern linux distros) try to give GUI interfaces for common tasks which may need root access, but obviously there are still things that don't have them.

There is a way of getting button press signals reported to you... but I have no idea if you can read the monitor button states this way - they're certainly not a standard signal you can scan for.

[thalass]

I found it thismorning. I had to put "RandRRotate" "Yes" in my xorg.conf, and then use the "xrandr -o 1(or 2, 3, 0)" to rotate. whee! Some guy wrote a script that is supposed to take the current state, and then go to the next setting on clicking the button associated with the script, but it doesnt' work for me so at the moment i have four application launcher buttons that point to xrandr -o 1, 2, 3, and 4 respectively. That'll do for the moment untill I can figure out (or, rather, use my google-fu to find out how someone else has done it :p) how to get the hardware button to work (probably using this scrip thingy