auto rotate too sensitive

[James Grant]

Installed elementary OS Loki on a Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro, which is a convertible laptop with a touch screen and auto-rotation for tablet mode.

The auto rotation is very sensitive, and is triggered:
* when the screen angle is adjusted
* when the table is bumped
* when the laptop is moved

Each adjustment results in a blank screen for a few seconds, which makes usage in a bumpy environment (car, train, plane) very difficult. Occasionally, rotation is stuck in the wrong orientation, and you need to fiddle with it to get back to normal.

Recommend:
1) Ability to turn off auto-rotation through settings (if this exists already, please let me know, I can't find it).

2) Adding a delay to the auto rotation. e.g. If the orientation stays switched for 3 seconds, then rotate the screen. This should get rid of the sensitive nature of it.

3) Optional: provide a way to turn on/off auto rotation through a hardware button (most devices have this, would be great if it could be wired up).

Thank you for your consideration.

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

Regarding rotation lock, OP can you confirm that running the follow command will lock rotation?

org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchscreen orientation-lock true

[James Grant (jamesgrant)]

Unfortunately I cannot.

I hit the bug where there is a blank desktop on login (the bottom bar or top bar do not show). Per an online fix, I removed/reinstalled pantheon. That fixed the login issue (yay!), but my screen no longer rotates at all.

I appreciate the reference to where the setting is located.

If I can figure out how to get rotate working again, I will certainly report back.

[James Grant (jamesgrant)]

After a reboot, auto-rotate started working again.

The setting is working reliably to turn the feature on and off.

Strangely, it does seem to be less sensitive than it was earlier this week (in particular, it no longer changes when moving the screen or the laptop). Maybe that was due to an update or the reinstall of pantheon?

In any case, I'm good with leaving rotate off. Feel free to close this if others don't have an issue. Thanks so much for the support!

[Carlos Fuentes (fuecarlos)]

I use the screen rotation, so I'd prefer to not lock it. But I agree that it is too sensitive. A sticky time seems like it would do the trick for me too.

[Andrei (afloarei-andrei90)]

I have a HP laptop (NOT a convertible laptop) and in Settings/Displays the Rotate option is set tot 'None'. But after a few minutes the Rotate option is chainging to clockwise and my screen is showing the desktop rotated to 90 degrees. If i change it back to 'None' is valid only for the desktop the login screen is still at 90 degrees.
Please do something is very annoying.

I tried the "Report a bug" link but it asked "Are you sure this bug is in upstream elementary OS?" and i didn't know what to do next. Sorry if i posted in the wrong place.