One thing I haven’t been able to find a tool to do is set my convertible laptop (HP Dragonfly Elite) to rotate in XFCE. Gnome does it out of the box, but I’m not a fan of Gnome.
The script is deceptively small, but it takes a very long time to find all the required information. I hope it’s helpful for someone! I’ve included links in the comments so if you have a slightly different machine this might help you modify it yourself.
In XFCE I’ve just added it to Session and Startup, where it quietly runs in the background.
You can find the latest version of the script here.
#!/bin/sh
#autorotate.sh
# Auto rotate screen based on device orientation
# https://github.com/MikeLindner/HP-Dragonfly-Screen-Rotate/blob/main/autorotate.sh
# Referencing:
# https://linuxappfinder.com/blog/auto_screen_rotation_in_ubuntu
# https://gist.github.com/mildmojo/48e9025070a2ba40795c
# https://gist.github.com/prolic/21673f0909c0cb5e2114
# Receives input from monitor-sensor (part of iio-sensor-proxy package)
# Screen orientation and launcher location is set based upon accelerometer position
# Launcher will be on the left in a landscape orientation and on the bottom in a portrait orientation
# This script should be added to startup applications for the user
# These values are obtained using "xinput list"
TOUCHPAD='SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad'
TOUCHSCREEN='Wacom HID 4924 Finger'
TRANSFORM='Coordinate Transformation Matrix'
# Clear sensor.log so it doesn't get too long over time
> sensor.log
# Launch monitor-sensor and store the output in a variable that can be parsed by the rest of the script
monitor-sensor >> sensor.log 2>&1 &
# Parse output or monitor sensor to get the new orientation whenever the log file is updated
# Possibles are: normal, bottom-up, right-up, left-up
# Light data will be ignored
while inotifywait -e modify sensor.log; do
# Read the last line that was added to the file and get the orientation
ORIENTATION=$(tail -n 1 sensor.log | grep 'orientation' | grep -oE '[^ ]+$')
# Set the actions to be taken for each possible orientation
case "$ORIENTATION" in
normal)
xrandr -o normal && xinput set-prop "$TOUCHSCREEN" "$TRANSFORM" 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 ;;
bottom-up)
xrandr -o inverted && xinput set-prop "$TOUCHSCREEN" "$TRANSFORM" -1 0 1 0 -1 1 0 0 1 ;;
right-up)
xrandr -o right && xinput set-prop "$TOUCHSCREEN" "$TRANSFORM" 0 1 0 -1 0 1 0 0 1 ;;
left-up)
xrandr -o left && xinput set-prop "$TOUCHSCREEN" "$TRANSFORM" 0 -1 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 ;;
esac
done