Hey everyone,
tl;dr
- How can I get auto-rotation to work if (presumably) the necessary sensors are not detected?
And if there is no trivial way for that:
- How can I manually rotate the screen via terminal commands in GNOME + Wayland?
some info about my system:
- OS: Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS (x86_64)
- Device: Lenovo Yoga 7i 2-in-1 Gen 10 (Model: 83JQ)
- Kernel: 6.11.0-21-generic
- DE: GNOME 46.0
- WM: Mutter (Wayland session)
- Shell: Bash 5.2.21
- Resolution: 2880x1800
- CPU: Intel Ultra 7 258V (8 cores @ 4.7GHz)
- GPU: Integrated Intel Graphics
- RAM: 32 GB
my problem description:
I just bought a new laptop/tablet convertible — the Lenovo Yoga 7i 2-in-1 Gen 10 (14″) — and I can’t get auto-rotation to work.
I suspect the accelerometer isn’t being detected by the kernel. ChatGPT pointed me to the tool monitor-sensor. Which outputs that no accelerometer is detected. I’m quite a noob with this deeper Linux stuff, so I’m really grateful for any help here even if I assume that this is not an Ubuntu problem but one of the Linux kernel?
I also tried the GNOME extension “System Rotate”, but that didn’t work either.
So I figured I’d just write a simple bash script to manually rotate the screen and disable the internal keyboard and touchpad. But now I’m stuck again, because I can’t find a working terminal command to rotate the screen.
At this point, the only method I’ve found is to manually rotate the screen every time via the GUI settings:
Settings → Display → Orientation → Landscape (flipped)
Is there any other option to consider?
Thanks a lot for taking the time to read and help!