Autorotate Display on 2-in-1

[waffleboi9000]

Problem:
I’m having trouble setting up automatic screen rotation.
Relevant Info:
I’ve got a 2-in-1, specifically a Lenovo Flex 5 14 inch (ARE05), and I’m using KDE Plasma 6.0.5 with Wayland. I have the iio-proxy-sensor-proxy package installed, and running monitor-sensor does correctly report the orientation of my laptop:

    Waiting for iio-sensor-proxy to appear
+++ iio-sensor-proxy appeared
=== Has accelerometer (orientation: undefined)
=== No ambient light sensor
=== No proximity sensor
    Accelerometer orientation changed: normal
    Accelerometer orientation changed: right-up
    Accelerometer orientation changed: normal
    Accelerometer orientation changed: bottom-up
    Accelerometer orientation changed: normal
    Accelerometer orientation changed: bottom-up
    Accelerometer orientation changed: normal

Display Configuration Settings:

Some posts i’ve seen online have mentioned the existence of an “automatic” orientation option, but as you can see, that isn’t present here. Is there some other setting I need to change to get automatic rotation working?

[Brouwer2]

Have you found a fix for this? I am having the same problem.

[waffleboi9000]

No luck yet, unfortunately.

[KWizzz]

Go to ‘Workspace Behavior’ > ‘General Behavior’ and check ‘Touch Mode’.
I had to set it to ‘Always enabled’ in order to respect screen rotation on KDE.

[waffleboi9000]

Even if I set touch mode to “Always Enabled,” automatic rotation still doesn’t work.

[KWizzz]

Super strange, as you have all requirements according to your first post.

On my system (Leap 15.5), the ‘Orientation’ setting under ‘Display Configuration’ magically appeared when I was switching from default X to Wayland on SDDM login screen.

I could then change it to ‘Automatic’ and either uncheck ‘Only when in tablet mode’ or keep it checked, plus having the ‘Touch Mode’ set as described previously.

[waffleboi9000]

I’m running tumbleweed, so perhaps there’s an issue related to an updated package, but I don’t think that’s likely, as I’ve been experiencing the lack of this option for quite some time. It’s more likely a misconfiguration or missing package, but I’m not sure where to look.

[waffleboi9000]

Just wanted to add that making a new user also didn’t fix the issue, so it’s probably a missing package rather than an incorrect setting.

[KWizzz]

Maybe you could try a live image. Tumbleweed and Leap.

[chrisvte]

Same problem here since a few months with Tumbleweed. I tried today with a live image of Tumbleweed (KDE-Live-x86_64-Snapshot20240714) and it is doing the same: when I rotate the laptop (HP Envy 360) it changes the size of the title bar windows but nothing more.
I installed KDE Neon (KDE Plasma 6.1.2) and it just works.

[chrisvte]

Really easy to fix after what Fabian Vogt told me in 1227871 – Autorotate is not working in KDE

Just install qt6-sensors, reboot and log in with wayland.

[waffleboi9000]

Yep, this fixed it for me, initially thought it wasn’t working, but after a reboot and folding my laptop, it works! Thank you to everyone who helped resolve this!