Automatic screen rotation

[zoward]

The #pinetab2 as shipped is a very nice KDE laptop. I'm interested in using it as a tablet. Tonight's discovery:

Automatic screen rotation!

In your terminal, type:

Code:

sudo pacman -S iio-sensor-proxy

(I assume you are working from an "administrator" with sudo access.) 

Log out & back in. Then your screen will rotate to match the orientation in which you are holding it! 

(Some of us are easily amused...)

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Hi Frtodd!  I tried this, and it definitely works when the tablet is not in the case.  However, I found that when I booted up the tablet while it was in the case, the screen would rotate into portrait mode and display sideways, and the X and Y axes of the cursor were reversed with the touchpad, e.g., moving my finger right on the touchpad would cause the pointer to move down on the screen, etc.   To be fair, I'd also used the suggestion of calling xrandr from the Xsetup script to keep the login screen in landscape mode, so that may have affected this.  I commented out that call, and the problem remained.  

Anyway, I ended up removing the package ("pacman -R iio-sensor-proxy"), and the everything went back to normal. 

Thanks,
zoward