Following a question from Leonti Bielski in the OpenMoko Community Mailing List, here’s a tip on how to start OMNewRotate (or any other rotate for that matter). Just execute the following (from the phone’s terminal or from an SSH connection), and restart the xserver:
echo '/home/root/rotate&' > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/89rotate chmod a+rx /etc/X11/Xsession.d/89rotate
My first reply has a bug, so maybe you should trust the above version better. I think Leonti caught it, since it worked for him 🙂