Wayland: A way to lock screen rotation
Feature summary
On xorg, autorotation can be enabled/disabled manually from the menu on the top-right corner, while in a Wayland session autorotation is toggled together with tablet mode. Thus, there's no way to either
- lock screen rotation in tablet mode
- enable screen rotation in laptop mode
- My laptop enters tablet mode way after 180 degrees/pi radians, making it cumbersome to use sideways
- mutter#1917
How would you like it to work
- Having a screen rotation lock in tablet mode similar to the one in xorg session
- Having a setting in the Tweak tool to keep it visible in laptop mode, allowing the user to enable autorotation in laptop mode
Relevant links, screenshots, screencasts etc.
I found an extension that claims to enable autorotation, but honestly at the very least rotation locking in tablet mode should come OOTB, as it does on all major touch device operating systems.
Edited by Matti C