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Created May 24, 2016 15:24
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Script to rotate the screen and touch devices on modern Linux desktops. Great for convertible laptops.
#!/bin/bash
#
# rotate_desktop.sh
#
# Rotates modern Linux desktop screen and input devices to match. Handy for
# convertible notebooks. Call this script from panel launchers, keyboard
# shortcuts, or touch gesture bindings (xSwipe, touchegg, etc.).
#
# Using transformation matrix bits taken from:
# https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/InputCoordinateTransformation
#
# Configure these to match your hardware (names taken from `xinput` output).
TOUCHPAD='SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad'
TOUCHSCREEN='Atmel Atmel maXTouch Digitizer'
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
echo "Missing orientation."
echo "Usage: $0 [normal|inverted|left|right] [revert_seconds]"
echo
exit 1
fi
function do_rotate
{
xrandr --output $1 --rotate $2
TRANSFORM='Coordinate Transformation Matrix'
case "$2" in
normal)
[ ! -z "$TOUCHPAD" ] && xinput set-prop "$TOUCHPAD" "$TRANSFORM" 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
[ ! -z "$TOUCHSCREEN" ] && xinput set-prop "$TOUCHSCREEN" "$TRANSFORM" 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
;;
inverted)
[ ! -z "$TOUCHPAD" ] && xinput set-prop "$TOUCHPAD" "$TRANSFORM" -1 0 1 0 -1 1 0 0 1
[ ! -z "$TOUCHSCREEN" ] && xinput set-prop "$TOUCHSCREEN" "$TRANSFORM" -1 0 1 0 -1 1 0 0 1
;;
left)
[ ! -z "$TOUCHPAD" ] && xinput set-prop "$TOUCHPAD" "$TRANSFORM" 0 -1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1
[ ! -z "$TOUCHSCREEN" ] && xinput set-prop "$TOUCHSCREEN" "$TRANSFORM" 0 -1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1
;;
right)
[ ! -z "$TOUCHPAD" ] && xinput set-prop "$TOUCHPAD" "$TRANSFORM" 0 1 0 -1 0 1 0 0 1
[ ! -z "$TOUCHSCREEN" ] && xinput set-prop "$TOUCHSCREEN" "$TRANSFORM" 0 1 0 -1 0 1 0 0 1
;;
esac
}
XDISPLAY=`xrandr --current | grep primary | sed -e 's/ .*//g'`
XROT=`xrandr --current --verbose | grep primary | egrep -o ' (normal|left|inverted|right) '`
do_rotate $XDISPLAY $1
if [ ! -z "$2" ]; then
sleep $2
do_rotate $XDISPLAY $XROT
exit 0
fi
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Hello,
There is also an auto-rotate script for all convertible laptops (not only yoga) that it's accelerometer is recognized from iio-sensor-proxy.
Check it here: https://github.com/gevasiliou/PythonTests/blob/master/autorotate.sh

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