LINUX: Successful Screen rotation & correct touch points via scripts

Windows Tablets Hi10 X
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Thanks; nice workaround! It worked for me on the CHUWI Hi10 X1 (N100) tablet running Linux Mint Mate. I just had to run:

xinput list

…to get the name of my touchscreen pointer (under “Virtual core pointer”), which was NYM TCA9537-B32 for me. (Replace GXTP7386:00 27C6:011A in the scripts with the name of your touchscreen pointer). Then I deleted the last line of both scripts because my tablet only had one device.

I combined both scripts into one, and bound it to the Pause/Break key in Keyboard Shortcuts, so it toggles between the two orientations:

#!/bin/bash

# File to store the current orientation
ORIENTATION_FILE="$(dirname "$0")/CurrentOrientation.txt"

# Default orientation if the file doesn't exist
if [ ! -f "$ORIENTATION_FILE" ]; then
  echo "landscape" > "$ORIENTATION_FILE"
fi

# Read the current orientation
CURRENT_ORIENTATION=$(cat "$ORIENTATION_FILE")

if [ "$CURRENT_ORIENTATION" = "portrait" ]; then
  # Switch to landscape
  xrandr -o right
  xinput set-prop "NYM TCA9537-B32" --type=float "Coordinate Transformation Matrix" 0 1 0 -1 0 1 0 0 1
  echo "landscape" > "$ORIENTATION_FILE"
else
  # Switch to portrait
  xrandr -o normal
  xinput set-prop "NYM TCA9537-B32" --type=float "Coordinate Transformation Matrix" 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
  echo "portrait" > "$ORIENTATION_FILE"
fi

I also added lines like this to the end of /etc/sudoers to allow the script to run as sudo without needing a password, because it need to be run as sudo for me:

YOUR_USERNAME ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /home/YOUR_USERNAME/Documents/Scripts/Orientation/ToggleScreenOrientation.sh

(where the path at the end is the full path to the script, without using ~/)

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