Gnome-shell wayland, rotate screen

Question

Assuming I'm using intel's driver.

Gnome-shell allows to rotate screens in Settings -> Display when using Xorg.

Is it possible to rotate when using Wayland?

Canicular

Ha, just upgraded to 3.18 on Arch and ran into the same issue... haven't seen it addressed anywhere else. – Miche

@aiguofer, I use Xorg and gnome-shell 3.18 in Arch too, but there is a bug when using two monitors and one is rotated (CCW in my case) the pointer has an offset, so when I try to focus a button for example it doesn't really get focus, unless I move the cursor to the left until I get focus to the desired element. Very annoying. Are you experiencing this too? That's why I'm trying to use wayland, but it doesn't rotate monitors. – Canicular

oh that's interesting, unfortunately no I don't have that bug. I'm on the intel driver on a sandy bridge machine with a hdmi monitor in horizontal mode and a vga monitor on vertical and works flawlessly on X. I tried Wayland and everything seems fine except for not being able to rotate the vertical monitor. – Miche

Answer 1

I had the problem with no screen rotation buttons in the monitor settings in my Lenovo Yoga 910 laptop, which is a convertible.

After Gnome started to randomly flip the screen I disabled automatic screen rotation via: gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.orientation active false

and suddenly, I've got these buttons!

Scherzo

Answer 2

GNOME's Mutter supports screen rotation on Wayland since 3.20, and 3.22 has improved it. https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointTwentyone/ReleaseNotes

Abeyta

Answer 3

A partial solution is to set the rotate-monitor key to some keybinding using gsettings or dconf-editor.

For instance, the following command will cause Ctrl+F8 to rotate the screen counterclockwise:

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

This does not allow the user to specify the target orientation, but only to rotate the screen until the desired orientation is reached.

(original posted here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/465395/20661)

Rigi