Automatic Screen Rotation - iio-sensor-proxy

Submitted by George Vasiliou

Assigned to Xfce Bug Triage

Link to original bug (#12682)

Description

Hello, This post is more a question than a bug.

I would like to know if XFCE (i'm using version 4.12) supports automatic screen rotation on convertible laptops, either by using iio-sensor-proxy api or by any other method.

I'm using Debian Jessie + XFCE4.12 with iio-sensor-proxy installed but screen is not auto rotating when i turn my screen on laptop (Toshiba Radius 11 L10W).

On the same laptop, auto screen rotation to works fine under UbuntuGnome (16.04 + Gnome 3.18) and iio-sensor-proxy.

In the new Debian + XFCE installation i have verified that iio-sensor-proxy works fine. Acceleromter sensors are correctly detected, and sensor's data are correctly read, so it seems that luck of auto rotation is not an iio-sensor-proxy bug.

PS: Someone could use a script based on iio-sensor-proxy to achieve auto screen rotation (such a script is provided here and works fine for me: http://linuxappfinder.com/blog/auto_screen_rotation_in_ubuntu), but i was wondering if this feature is available in XFCE natively, as it is in Gnome 3.18.

Any ideas....?

Thank you in advance,

George V.

Version: 4.12.0