[11:46] <xu-help79w> Hi everyone. I was wondering how well Xubuntu supports touch- and rotating screens? I'm thinking about buying a Lenovo which has a touchscreen you can completely flip over and run Xubuntu on it.
[11:52] <JackFrost> Touchscreen yes, never tried the other.
[11:56] <pjotter> This is the computer I'm talking about: https://www.lenovo.com/nl/nl/laptops/lenovo/student-laptops/300w-AMD-G3/p/22ED03W3WA3
[11:57]  * xu-help79w is now know as pjotter
[11:58] <arraybolt3> pjotter: That screen folds back - the top of the screen is still the top of the screen. That should be fine.
[11:59] <arraybolt3> pjotter: There are some setups where the screen is flipped upside down somehow (think "tent mode" on a laptop) and that can be a pain.
[11:59] <pjotter> Yes, true. But with that model you can also open up the lid like 270 degrees and put it on a table like a v-shape. In that case the screen would be upside down.
[11:59] <arraybolt3> If you use that machine in tent mode I think you'll probably have problems, but if the top of the screen always remains at the top, it should be fine. Otherwise you'll have to figure out how to get the whole screen to rotate and that could be tricky.
[11:59] <pjotter> Yes, I think it's the tent mode.
[12:00] <pjotter> Maybe I could write a script for that, who knows.
[12:00] <arraybolt3> A couple of xrandr commands might do it.
[12:00] <arraybolt3> https://askubuntu.com/questions/1043644/how-to-rotate-screen-in-ubuntu-using-terminal
[12:00] <arraybolt3> xrandr --output $(xrandr |grep eDP|cut -d" " -f1) --rotate inverted
[12:00] <pjotter> Yes, indeed. That was what I was thinking.
[12:01] <pjotter> I quess I wil, just have to try it out :)
[12:01] <arraybolt3> Depending on whether or not an event is triggered when the laptop detects it's been flipped upside odwn, you may be able to automate it.
[12:01] <arraybolt3> But if nothing else, a script on the desktop you can double-click should do it.
[12:01] <pjotter> But you are right, in any other configuration, the orientation of the screen would be normal, so that would not be a problem at all.
[12:04] <pjotter> arraybolt3: Thanks for the answers!
[12:04] <arraybolt3> Glad I was able to help!
[12:05] <pjotter> If I succeed in making it work, I might come back here an share the experience :)