Set up autorotate of screen in 18.10 with Wayland

Question

I tried following this guide which apparently worked back in 2016. Is there an equivalent method that might work with Wayland? I saw somewhere that Gnome now supports it but my display settings only show a way to set the screen orientation manually.

Answer 1

The good old xrandr -o [rotation] won't work in Ubuntu 18.

The working command to rotate screen in Ubuntu 18 is

xrandr --output [display port] --rotate [rotation]

with

• [rotation] being, as before, one of normal, left, right or inverted;

• [display port]: unless you already know yours (HDMI, DP, eDP...), you can

  • run xrandr alone and read through what it says to find the one which is said to be connected;

    or

  • run xrandr | egrep -o '^.+ connected' | cut -d " " -f 1 to have Shell bring it to you.

    With the two commands put together, you have:

    o=$(xrandr | egrep -o '^.+ connected' | cut -d " " -f 1); xrandr --output $o --rotate [rotation]
    

    or

    xrandr --output $(xrandr | egrep -o '^.+ connected' | cut -d " " -f 1) --rotate [rotation]