Auto rotating screen does stretch background image

[weewoo-meow]

Distribution

Mint 21.3

Package version

6.0.4

Graphics hardware in use

Intel HD Graphics 620

Frequency

Always

Bug description

When I rotate the screen fast and multiple times, especially flipping my Yoga X1 from normal landscape to upside-down and in the middle resizing to potrait mode because I was too slow, the background image zooms in. This can be performed multiple times to even zoom it more.

Steps to reproduce

• Have a laptop with supports automatic screen rotation
• Flip it fast to potrait mode
• Flip it back to landscape mode
• Repeat this multiple times

Expected behavior

No zoomed in background image

Additional information

[weewoo-meow]

I found a fix for myself, the solution is to prevent any rotation to portrait mode. As Cinnamon does not support this, I scripted my own desktop flip script and deactivated that Cinnamon flips the screen for me (first checkbox at window in screenshot must be true).

#!/bin/bash
monitor-sensor --accel | while IFS= read -r line; do
    if [[ $line == *"Accelerometer orientation changed: normal"* ]]; then
        xrandr -o normal
    fi
    if [[ $line == *"Accelerometer orientation changed: bottom-up"* ]]; then
        xrandr -o inverted
    fi
done

Run this in background and it does the job plus it is way more convenient. This script was written by me and I publish it under the WTFPL.