$10 to rotate the iBook trackpad?

Why not just use a mouse or external track pad? I think that would solve your dilemma.

As for software I’ve never heard of anything that does this, so I’d be interested to see if anyone comes up with a find too.

@rhodes54 nice avatar btw! Is that an Arp or MOOG? Just curious.

It’s an ARP Odyssey. Not mine, but same model. I’m using the iBook on a piano’s music stand, there’s no room for an external mouse or trackpad. Believe me, I’ve tried.

Maybe that iSlate will come in handy once it arrives! Or, if it’s really a big deal, you could get a low-budg USB external trackpad and sit it up next to the laptop on the stand, and have it rotated to the correct orientation?! Necessity…the mother of invention?!

I don’t understand… must be extra daft today…

If the entire iBook has been rotated so that it’s physically on its side, then the trackpad is already in the correct orientation, right?

So… 90 degrees counterclockwise means the screen is on the left and the keyboard/trackpad portion is on the right. If you drag your finger physically up (to the right in normal orientation) on the trackpad, then the mouse pointer also moves up (again, to the right in normal orientation) on the screen.

What am I missing?

Interesting…I’ll set my googling to work.

@robmandu The iBook is basically resting on the left side, with the ports and side of the display against the piano. If you move your finger UP on the trackpad, the cursor goes right. Here is an early revision when I had it the OTHER way. After a few months, I found it more ergonomic when on the LEFT side.

@sndfreQ Well, duh!!! Seriously, I used to have a MusicPad Pro , which got stolen six months ago. Rather than replacing it, I thought the iSlablet or whatever would be the best thing. In the meantime, I just needed to cobble something together until it comes out, hence the iBook. There really aren’t any low-budget external trackpads. The closest thing was the Wacom Bamboo, but still not a perfect solution.

A more recent photo

@rhodes54, ah, I understand now.

I’m amazed that the software allowing you to rotate your desktop 90° CCW doesn’t also provide for changing the orientation of your trackpad as well.

What’s the software/hack you’re using?

What is CCW? Sounds like an anagram for my daughter saying “Cweedence Clee-u wat-u Wevival” Har har.
The software I found was Display Rotation Menu

Right, “counter clockwise”. duh, me.

Huh… according to that software’s site, it doesn’t support rotating the internal monitor under Mac OS X 10.5.x. Weird bit of software in that it pretty much seems to provide the exact same functionality that Apple has built in to Leopard… with one notable exception… it does indeed rotate your internal display.

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Crap. So far, just finding Windows-only utility Eeerotate.

Yup, I already tried searching “Eeerotate for Mac”

Try ffs (http://ffs.sourceforge.net/). It rotates trackpads. The drawback is you may have to downgrade to Tiger in order to use it. Nonetheless it should work with an iBook, but won’t work with a more recent trackpads.

I’m looking for the same thing for the same reason. If I knew Cocoa, maybe I could rummage through ffs and modernize its trackpad rotation code.

Thanks for the answer. I’m hoping that all my problems will be solved tomorrow when my iPad arrives!