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viniosity

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[Imperfectly solved] Trouble rotating the screen on the HP Envy

The sensors don't work on the HP Envy x360. Known issue. But I used to be able to rotate it manually and assign it to a keyboard shortcut (in Ubuntu). I can't seem to figure out how to do that in Arch. The output of xrandr -q give me:

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 8192 x 8192
XWAYLAND0 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
   1920x1080     59.96 +

I've tried various iterations of

xrandr -o right

to no avail. I just get an error saying "Failed to change the screen configuration!"

Anybody have any tips for me? I saw the wiki mention an entry in xorg.conf. I installed yesterday so assumed it's there but actually can't find the xorg.conf on my system anywhere.

Last edited by viniosity (2019-01-15 22:05:24)

jasonwryan

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Re: [Imperfectly solved] Trouble rotating the screen on the HP Envy

You have to create any conf files in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ yourself.

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viniosity

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Re: [Imperfectly solved] Trouble rotating the screen on the HP Envy

Going to add a couple of data points here:

1. this command doesn't error but doesn't do anything:

xrandr --output XWAYLAND0 --rotate right 

2. In Gnome Settings, changing the display orientation DOES work. Wish I knew what Gnome was doing to trigger it so I could create a script or keybind it.

viniosity

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Re: [Imperfectly solved] Trouble rotating the screen on the HP Envy

Here's an update and fix:

$ gsettings set org.gnome.mutter.keybindings rotate-monitor "['XF86RotateWindows', '<Control>F8']"

Doing that allows me to hit control-F8 to rotate the screen one direction. Not perfect, but it works.

V1del

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Re: [Imperfectly solved] Trouble rotating the screen on the HP Envy

Why not that's probably the way to do it, you can't use xorg tools to manipulate your wayland server