Screen rotated to landscape: mouse stays in portrait mode

sven

If I rotate the screen to landscape, the mouse (bluetooth) seems to respect the original dimensions, so that the right half of the screen cannot be reached with the mouse. (Current OTA-4, focal, GS5pro)

kugiigi

@sven Sadly this is a known issue and some people already tried to fix it. Not sure if it's already fixed but in Ubuntu 24.04, it's still there.

sven

I see.

Is there a workaround so that the orientation could be fixed after/during a boot? I am asking because I am using rotation lock (staying in landscape), so a one-time fix would be enough for me

kugiigi

@sven I'm not aware of any workaround. If you know QML, you can check the code.and maybe a simple rotation of the Cursor can do the trick or something.

arubislander

@kugiigi If there were such a 'simple' work-around, then there would already have been a PR for that, no?

kugiigi

@arubislander Well I'm just talking about a workaround like perhaps only make it work in a specific orientation which seems to be what the OP needs

hilbert

I keep this thread watched, because I am very interested in it!
And I add an information: it is not just a visualization issue, but the pointing is affected too. If I rotate the phone to the left, the mouse pointer works as the application bar was along the top edge (where on the screen the notification bar is shown).
The pointer probably could operate on the notification bar, if it could reach the right edge (but the movement stop at a middle point, probably corresponding to the device screen width)

Rotating it to the right, the application bar is found (by the mouse pointer) on the virtual bottom (which is much farther than the device screen, probably corresponding to the screen height), while the left edge allows to operate on the notification area.

benjamin

Howdy y'all from Florida.

I've got this same issue; but if you ask me it's an issue with the touch screen overlay not being configured at all for landscape.

Same exact thing happens on a real PC if you never set up rotation on a manually configured screen.

I literally just installed this morning on my N10 and immediately got my heart broken over this.

I'm going to poke around and see what I can find.

I have not read anything about root status on this OS; is the default user already admin? If so, then poking around might be worth it...

ikoz

@benjamin said in Screen rotated to landscape: mouse stays in portrait mode:

have not read anything about root status on this OS; is the default user already admin?

The default user is phablet and it is a member of the sudo group so yes, you can run commands that require root privileges. Keep in mind that the filesystem is read-only like on immutable distros.