Arch Linux

herhuf

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Registered: 2016-12-17

Posts: 1

Detect status of lid when turned more than 180° / Device orientation

Hello,

I'm using Arch Linux on an Acer Spin 5 laptop. The laptop lid can be turned backwards and then be used as a tablet. In Windows this is detected automatically and the keyboard is deactivated then. Arch seems to detect this, too, because when I turn the screen about 180° the keyboard gets deactivated, too.

I have tried to read out "/proc/acpi/button/lid/LID0/state" (with a script) when the lid is turned more than 180°, but the state is still just "open" then. So how can I detect whether the lid is just open or open more than 180°?

"dmesg" and "journalctl" contain no events about the lid, either.

Also Windows seems to be able to detect the device orientation and adjusts screen orientation accordingly (like holding it sideways), is it possible, to detect this in Arch, too?