Rotate touch input with screen (or disable touch completely)

[IDontWantW10]

Hello,

I just installed mint and the screen orientation was portrait. I changed it in DE with settings and I changed it in lightdm with adding

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[SeatDefaults]
display-setup-script=xrandr -o right

to /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/70-linuxmint.conf

now Both DE and Login screen are in landscape mode, there's a problem though: touch input is still in portrait mode.
How can I rotate it? It would be awesome if it would rotate with screen rotation.

I've looked through the web, but I didn't try nothing because I think that what my pc considers the "normal" orientation is "portrait" (rotated to left) so I'm scared that executing the tips I find in the internet may ruin all my system.

Do you guys know how could I rotate touch input so that it aligns with screen rotation?
If you guys don't know, or it is not possible, could you please tell me how to totally disable touch screen? I'd rather not have than have it not working properly

I'll now provide my inxi

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System:
  Kernel: 5.4.0-72-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 
  Desktop: Cinnamon 4.8.6 wm: muffin 4.8.1 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 
  Distro: Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:
  Type: Detachable System: ASUSTeK product: T101HA v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: T101HA v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: American Megatrends v: T101HA.304 date: 06/05/2017 
Battery:
  ID-1: BATC charge: 20.0 Wh condition: 28.7/31.6 Wh (91%) volts: 3.9/3.8 
  model: Intel SR 1 SR Real Battery type: Li-ion serial: <filter> 
  status: Discharging cycles: 51 
CPU:
  Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Atom x5-Z8350 bits: 64 type: MCP 
  arch: Airmont rev: 4 L2 cache: 1024 KiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 11520 
  Speed: 480 MHz min/max: 480/1920 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 482 2: 480 
  3: 571 4: 572 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx 
  Integrated Graphics 
  vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:22b0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
  resolution: 800x1280~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics (CHV) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.2.6 
  compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Atom/Celeron/Pentium Processor x5-E8000/J3xxx/N3xxx Series 
  Imaging Unit 
  vendor: ASUSTeK driver: intel_atomisp2_pm v: kernel bus ID: 00:03.0 
  chip ID: 8086:22b8 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-72-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter 
  vendor: AzureWave driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel port: f000 bus ID: 01:00.0 
  chip ID: 168c:0042 
  IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 58.24 GiB used: 9.00 GiB (15.5%) 
  ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: DF4064 size: 58.24 GiB serial: <filter> rev: 0x8 
  scheme: GPT 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 56.58 GiB used: 9.00 GiB (15.9%) fs: ext4 
  dev: /dev/mmcblk0p2 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 6280.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 
Repos:
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
  1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com ulyssa main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main
  2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
  3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
  4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
  5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
  6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
Info:
  Processes: 211 Uptime: 17m Memory: 3.68 GiB used: 767.8 MiB (20.4%) 
  Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 Shell: bash 
  v: 5.0.17 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.38 

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I just installed mint and the screen orientation was portrait. I changed it in DE with settings and I changed it in lightdm with adding

Code: Select all

[SeatDefaults]
display-setup-script=xrandr -o right

to /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/70-linuxmint.conf

now Both DE and Login screen are in landscape mode, there's a problem though: touch input is still in portrait mode.
How can I rotate it? It would be awesome if it would rotate with screen rotation.

Others have indicated the screen orientation changes as they rotate it and I thought touch did as well.

In the Displays app, there is the option in Layout to rotate the screen. Is that what you did? I would have thought that would have changed the touch orientation, but maybe it does not on your particular hardware or maybe you changed the orientation some other way.

Also in the Displays app is Settings which gives an option to automatically disable screen rotation.

Disabling touch may be an option in the BIOS/UEFI.

[IDontWantW10]

What you are refearing to is the screen orientation of the DE. In that case I used the gui tool you mentioned.

With the command I was refearing to lightdm, the login screen (display manager should be called maybe?)

No option in bios, but I'd try to make it work first and use the disable as the last resource

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Touch can be accomplished with a variety of hardware so it's sometimes a challenge to know what to check. You can run xinput to see what drivers may be running it.

You are running Cinnamon so you have the Graphics Tablet app installed. Check to see if there is an option on it which might help.

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Moderator note: RedFaster's issue can now be found here Rotate touch input with screen orientation because the hardware is not the same.