Screen rotates after closing HP laptop's lid with Ubuntu 18.04.2

I have checked other posts about randomly rotating screens, and screens that rotate after sleep. I have tried the following to no avail:

1. Lock screen rotation:

   Problem persists.

2. Disable GNOME orientation plugin:

   gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.orientation active false

   Problem persists.

3. Disable/Uninstall iio-sensor-proxy:

   sudo systemctl stop iio-sensor-proxy.service
   sudo systemctl disable iio-sensor-proxy.service
   sudo apt-get remove iio-sensor-proxy

   Problem persists.

Every time I close the lid, the laptop wakes up sideways and I have to run:

xrandr -o normal

Is there a bug somewhere? Have I missed something?

How can I make xrandr -o normal run every time the laptop wakes from suspend? Maybe a hackish solution, but it might work, right?

1 Answer

I don't know if what you describe is a bug, but you can run xrandr -o normal at wake-up from suspend by doing the following (based on this answer and the comment below it):

1. Create a shell script named xrandr_normal.sh (you can use another name if you wish) that runs your xrandr command:

   nano /path/to/script/xrandr_normal.sh

   Put the following inside:

   #!/bin/bash
   DISPLAY=:0.0 ; export DISPLAY
   xrandr -o normal

2. Give execution rights to your script:

   chmod u+x /path/to/script/xrandr_normal.sh

3. Create a service file that will run your script after suspend (you can use whatever name you wish for the service file):

   sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/xrandr_normal.service

   Put the following inside:

   [Unit]
   Description=Some description
   Before=sleep.target
   StopWhenUnneeded=yes
   [Service]
   User=YOUR_USERNAME
   Type=oneshot
   RemainAfterExit=yes
   ExecStop=/path/to/script/xrandr_normal.sh
   [Install]
   WantedBy=sleep.target

   Make sure to replace YOUR_USERNAME in the first line below [Service] with your actual username and put the correct path to your script in ExecStop.

4. Enable the service you created:

   sudo systemctl enable xrandr_normal

5. Start the service:

   sudo systemctl start xrandr_normal

6. As the author of the answer that this one is based on suggests, you can check for errors if the service does not work after suspend with the following command:

   journalctl -u xrandr_normal.service