Changing the way automatic screen rotation works in Gnome shell
I recently acquired a Lenovo Yoga 3 11" convertible notebook. It works really with out-of-the-box with Ubuntu Gnome LTS 16.04.2 - WiFi, Bluetooth, even suspend and resume work without any issues so far.
I noticed that Gnome 3 even allows the screen to auto-rotate based on the built-in rotation sensors. The Yoga 3 11" does offer rotation sensors via iio-sensor-proxy which is already installed by default in Ubuntu Gnome. As it happens, the orientation reported by iio-sensor-proxy seems to be off by 90°.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/634151/auto-rotate-screen-on-dell-13-7000-with-15-04-gnome has a solution in terms of a custom shell script which handles the screen rotation. I would rather not use this solution as it disables the "disable screen rotation" button in Gnome Shell.
I did some research already and found that iio-sensor-proxy should cause udev to trigger an event which is then used by Gnome 3 to set the screen orientation via xrandr. I cannot, however, find a way to tell either udev or Gnome 3 that the accelerometer is mounted in an orientation different from the display, which requires the directions to be translated in between.
So, the question is: How can that be done? The orientation remapping should be possible in either iio-sensor-proxy, udev or Gnome 3, and I actually don't care that much where it is done. I don't seem to find any config files I can easily change to achieve what I need.
As a workaround for now I am using the script from the ask ubuntu question linked above, with modifications to account for the misaligned display/accelerometer issue. For this to work, I have to disable the automatic screen rotation in Gnome 3. Although this solution also allows automatically starting and killing onboard (on-screen keyboard) depending on current orientation, it kind of defeats the purpose of the Gnome 3 screen rotation setting.
gnome3 udev xrandr touch-screen
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I recently acquired a Lenovo Yoga 3 11" convertible notebook. It works really with out-of-the-box with Ubuntu Gnome LTS 16.04.2 - WiFi, Bluetooth, even suspend and resume work without any issues so far.
I noticed that Gnome 3 even allows the screen to auto-rotate based on the built-in rotation sensors. The Yoga 3 11" does offer rotation sensors via iio-sensor-proxy which is already installed by default in Ubuntu Gnome. As it happens, the orientation reported by iio-sensor-proxy seems to be off by 90°.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/634151/auto-rotate-screen-on-dell-13-7000-with-15-04-gnome has a solution in terms of a custom shell script which handles the screen rotation. I would rather not use this solution as it disables the "disable screen rotation" button in Gnome Shell.
I did some research already and found that iio-sensor-proxy should cause udev to trigger an event which is then used by Gnome 3 to set the screen orientation via xrandr. I cannot, however, find a way to tell either udev or Gnome 3 that the accelerometer is mounted in an orientation different from the display, which requires the directions to be translated in between.
So, the question is: How can that be done? The orientation remapping should be possible in either iio-sensor-proxy, udev or Gnome 3, and I actually don't care that much where it is done. I don't seem to find any config files I can easily change to achieve what I need.
As a workaround for now I am using the script from the ask ubuntu question linked above, with modifications to account for the misaligned display/accelerometer issue. For this to work, I have to disable the automatic screen rotation in Gnome 3. Although this solution also allows automatically starting and killing onboard (on-screen keyboard) depending on current orientation, it kind of defeats the purpose of the Gnome 3 screen rotation setting.
gnome3 udev xrandr touch-screen
asked Apr 26 '17 at 17:29
hoehoe
20625
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github.com/hadess/iio-sensor-proxy/issues/57
– don_crissti
Apr 26 '17 at 18:40
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I recently acquired a Lenovo Yoga 3 11" convertible notebook. It works really with out-of-the-box with Ubuntu Gnome LTS 16.04.2 - WiFi, Bluetooth, even suspend and resume work without any issues so far.
I noticed that Gnome 3 even allows the screen to auto-rotate based on the built-in rotation sensors. The Yoga 3 11" does offer rotation sensors via iio-sensor-proxy which is already installed by default in Ubuntu Gnome. As it happens, the orientation reported by iio-sensor-proxy seems to be off by 90°.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/634151/auto-rotate-screen-on-dell-13-7000-with-15-04-gnome has a solution in terms of a custom shell script which handles the screen rotation. I would rather not use this solution as it disables the "disable screen rotation" button in Gnome Shell.
I did some research already and found that iio-sensor-proxy should cause udev to trigger an event which is then used by Gnome 3 to set the screen orientation via xrandr. I cannot, however, find a way to tell either udev or Gnome 3 that the accelerometer is mounted in an orientation different from the display, which requires the directions to be translated in between.
So, the question is: How can that be done? The orientation remapping should be possible in either iio-sensor-proxy, udev or Gnome 3, and I actually don't care that much where it is done. I don't seem to find any config files I can easily change to achieve what I need.
As a workaround for now I am using the script from the ask ubuntu question linked above, with modifications to account for the misaligned display/accelerometer issue. For this to work, I have to disable the automatic screen rotation in Gnome 3. Although this solution also allows automatically starting and killing onboard (on-screen keyboard) depending on current orientation, it kind of defeats the purpose of the Gnome 3 screen rotation setting.
gnome3 udev xrandr touch-screen
asked Apr 26 '17 at 17:29
hoehoe
20625
I recently acquired a Lenovo Yoga 3 11" convertible notebook. It works really with out-of-the-box with Ubuntu Gnome LTS 16.04.2 - WiFi, Bluetooth, even suspend and resume work without any issues so far.
I noticed that Gnome 3 even allows the screen to auto-rotate based on the built-in rotation sensors. The Yoga 3 11" does offer rotation sensors via iio-sensor-proxy which is already installed by default in Ubuntu Gnome. As it happens, the orientation reported by iio-sensor-proxy seems to be off by 90°.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/634151/auto-rotate-screen-on-dell-13-7000-with-15-04-gnome has a solution in terms of a custom shell script which handles the screen rotation. I would rather not use this solution as it disables the "disable screen rotation" button in Gnome Shell.
I did some research already and found that iio-sensor-proxy should cause udev to trigger an event which is then used by Gnome 3 to set the screen orientation via xrandr. I cannot, however, find a way to tell either udev or Gnome 3 that the accelerometer is mounted in an orientation different from the display, which requires the directions to be translated in between.
So, the question is: How can that be done? The orientation remapping should be possible in either iio-sensor-proxy, udev or Gnome 3, and I actually don't care that much where it is done. I don't seem to find any config files I can easily change to achieve what I need.
As a workaround for now I am using the script from the ask ubuntu question linked above, with modifications to account for the misaligned display/accelerometer issue. For this to work, I have to disable the automatic screen rotation in Gnome 3. Although this solution also allows automatically starting and killing onboard (on-screen keyboard) depending on current orientation, it kind of defeats the purpose of the Gnome 3 screen rotation setting.
gnome3 udev xrandr touch-screen
gnome3 udev xrandr touch-screen
asked Apr 26 '17 at 17:29
hoehoe
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asked Apr 26 '17 at 17:29
hoehoe
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edited Apr 27 '17 at 8:42
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asked Apr 26 '17 at 17:29
hoehoe
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asked Apr 26 '17 at 17:29
hoehoe
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asked Apr 26 '17 at 17:29
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github.com/hadess/iio-sensor-proxy/issues/57
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From GITHUB iio-sensor-proxy site
When the accelerometer is not mounted the same way as the screen, we need to modify the readings from the accelerometer to make sure that the computed orientation matches the screen one.
iio-sensor-proxy reads this information from the device's ACCEL_MOUNT_MATRIX udev property. See 60-sensor.hwdb for details.
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From GITHUB iio-sensor-proxy site
When the accelerometer is not mounted the same way as the screen, we need to modify the readings from the accelerometer to make sure that the computed orientation matches the screen one.
iio-sensor-proxy reads this information from the device's ACCEL_MOUNT_MATRIX udev property. See 60-sensor.hwdb for details.
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From GITHUB iio-sensor-proxy site
When the accelerometer is not mounted the same way as the screen, we need to modify the readings from the accelerometer to make sure that the computed orientation matches the screen one.
iio-sensor-proxy reads this information from the device's ACCEL_MOUNT_MATRIX udev property. See 60-sensor.hwdb for details.
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From GITHUB iio-sensor-proxy site
When the accelerometer is not mounted the same way as the screen, we need to modify the readings from the accelerometer to make sure that the computed orientation matches the screen one.
iio-sensor-proxy reads this information from the device's ACCEL_MOUNT_MATRIX udev property. See 60-sensor.hwdb for details.
answered Jun 9 '17 at 9:22
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From GITHUB iio-sensor-proxy site
When the accelerometer is not mounted the same way as the screen, we need to modify the readings from the accelerometer to make sure that the computed orientation matches the screen one.
iio-sensor-proxy reads this information from the device's ACCEL_MOUNT_MATRIX udev property. See 60-sensor.hwdb for details.
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