How do I fix my auto screen rotation?

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Hello, I am a beginner with Linux, I am trying out Manjaro, KDE Plasma, Wayland for my first experience, and have ran into a problem with my ASUS 2-in-1 T101ha tablet in short, the screen doesn’t auto rotate, and on system startup, it is rotated 90° counterclockwise.

I have looked online for solutions to this problem, and have found a couple, unfortunately, none of them have worked yet.

I would post links, but I currently don’t have the required trust rank.

Many solutions mention “install iio-sensor-proxy”, when I tried this an error was thrown back at me.

mkdir: cannot create directory 'iio-sensor-proxy/build': File exists

I assume this means it’s already installed? a different solution involved a setting “orientation function” in display settings, and that doesn’t show up for me.

Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

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Hello,

How did you tried to install it? You should be fine with
pamac install iio-sensor-proxy

Remember, you might have to enable the service for it
systemctl enable iio-sensor-proxy.service

Try X11 session as wayland might not yet be suitable.

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Thank you for your quick reply.

since I’m new, I don’t know whats considered “standard” for installing this sort of thing, but, I used the “git clone” command, then the “makepkg” command (after the cd command).

I just tried to enable it as you said, but got this error

Failed to enable unit: Unit file iio-sensor-proxy.service does not exist.

I’ll try a different session, but…
1). will this get rid of my data?
2). how do I do that?

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Open up Pamac and if a package is in our repository, install it from there.

You just log out and chose the Plasma X11 Session. Has nothing to do with losing your data …

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Thanks, It now seems to be successfully installed, but enabling it still didn’t work

The unit files have no installation config (WantedBy=, RequiredBy=, Also=,
Alias= settings in the [Install] section, and DefaultInstance= for template
units). This means they are not meant to be enabled using systemctl.

I then tried switching to a Plasma x11 session, and that also didn’t work.

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Please remove your git clone install of the iio-sensor-proxy and install it from our repos as i mentioned previously … Reboot the system after that and check the status:

systemctl status iio-sensor-proxy

or

systemctl status iio-sensor-proxy.service

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I have now done that, and it says it’s active.

and it doesn’t work. Maybe It’s because it can’t tell if its in tablet mode or not.

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Never mind! I switched back to wayland because my touch controls were being weird and now it works! thanks for your help!

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Solution (provided by bogdancovaciu):

  1. If you’ve already installed iio-sensor-proxy via the git clone command, remove it via
sudo pacman -R iio-sensor-proxy
  1. Install iio-sensot-proxy with pamac
pamac install iio-sensor-proxy
  1. Enable it
systemctl enable iio-sensor-proxy.service

  1. Reboot computer

  2. Check status to make sure It’s running

systemctl status iio-sensor-proxy
  1. Try it out.
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