Touch screen orientation does not follow screen rotation

[Redsandro]

 * Cinnamon version 3.8.8
 * Distribution - Mint 19
 * Graphics hardware: Intel HD Graphics 620; Driver: i915
 * ThinkPad X1 Yoga 64 bit

Issue

When rotating a laptop 90 degrees (tablet mode) or flip the screen over 210 degrees (effectively rotating the display 180 degrees) (table stand mode), the touch orientation will remain the same.

This makes tablet mode or "netflix mode" unusable.

Steps to reproduce

• Rotate laptop 90 or 180 degrees
• Drag circles on touch screen
  • Observe that mouse cursor does the inverse (in case of 180 degrees).

Expected behaviour

A touch event should always be where your finger touches the screen. No exceptions. Ever.

The touchpad and the point-stick are also in the wrong orientation, although one could argue that these won't be used in tablet- or table-stand-mode. However, I would use table-stand (180 degrees) with a bluetooth mouse. I assume this won't work properly either, but I cannot test that at the moment as my bluetooth mouse is broken.

[cgarciaq]

I confirm the problem! I have a Dell XPS 13 9365 with touch screen and this is happening to me as well.

Fortunately I have been able to solve it partially using a script I found called magick-rotation (google it). I did have to install it manually, but in the end worked. So, now only the trackpad has the wrong orientation (the touch screen is OK).

The script allows you to block the touch input clicking on it, which is very nice when you only want to use the pen (it does not block the pen input, only your fingers).

I would like this script (or cinnamon) to have some more functionality:

• Optionally, only rotate when the lid surpasses 180º (otherwise, it is just a laptop, and shouldn't rotate).
• Create an option to be able to block rotation. I know there is the option in the "General" settings menu, but what I think is really useful is to be able to block this setting without entering any menu, when one wants to read or write in the screen without being bothered by undesired rotations (maybe I'm writting upside down). Besides, this menu option is not useful when I run magick-rotation script, because in this situation it is rotating anyway even if the setting says the opposite (fortunately both the screen and the touchscreen).

Well, I'll write a feature request :-)

[ovari]

Screen orientation does not work on ASUS VivoBook Flip 12 either.

@clefebvre can code from Ubuntu be used to implement screen orientation?

Thank you

[Redsandro]

Problem still exists on Cinnamon 4.2

[LennertVA]

Confirmed to be present on 4.2.4.