Display starts up with wrong screen orientation on thinkpad X230 tablet

[Rüdiger Kupper]

I'm quite lost as to with package I should report this issue. I report it against gnome-control-center because this is where screen settings are made. Please help and direct this report to the right place. Thank you.

On a Lenovo thinkpad X230 tablet, one of the bezel buttons is bound to rotating the screen in steps of 90°. This is an improvement in raring compared to quantal, because in quantal, this button did not work at all.

However, when I rotate the screen using this bezel button, shut down and reboot, the display starts up rotated 90° to the right, compared with what it was on shutdown. This is not a serious problem, but very inconvenient. It startles you quite a bit booting your computer and seeing the login screen rotated to the right. (Even the more as the touch display orientation is not changed in the same way, but that's another bug.)

This problem does not appear, when the screen orientation is changed via the "Display" dialog from the control center. Just when using the bezel button.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu24
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.29-generic 3.8.8
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Apr 30 18:15:40 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-12 (18 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-25 (5 days ago)
usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
 activity-log-manager-control-center 0.9.4-0ubuntu6.1
 deja-dup 26.0-0ubuntu1
 gnome-control-center-signon 0.1.6bzr13.04.05-0ubuntu1
 gnome-control-center-unity 1.2daily13.04.09-0ubuntu1
 indicator-datetime 12.10.3daily13.03.26-0ubuntu1

[Rüdiger Kupper (ruediger.kupper)]

In addition, after that has happened, the desktop switcher and the desktop wall are confused about the screen width and height:
See the attached screenshot for the desktop switcher.
(Taking a screen shot while swicthing within the desktp wall does not work. Description: The wall shows the screen previews with correct orientation, but reversed aspect ratio, i.e., height and width of the previews is swapped.)

[Rüdiger Kupper (ruediger.kupper)]

Note how the orange frame in the desktop switcher does not match the displayed screens. This happens after the display started up with wrong screen orientation.
This is obviously a mismatch between what is shown on the screen and what the system believes it should be, in terms of orientation.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Alcasa MZ (alcasa-mz)]

This bug also exists on the X220 Tablet.

[wordin0389 (nthato3n)]

I am also having thid issue on X220 Tablet since upgrading to Ubuntu 13.4

[Rüdiger Kupper (ruediger.kupper)]

This problem persists in Saucy.

But I made the following observations:
- after update form raring to saucy, the problem did not manifest itself at first, screen started up with correct rotation.
- I started using the `onboard` virtual keyboard -- still no problem
- Finally, I checked the option "automatically display upon text input". Onboard informed me that for this option, "GNOME assistive techology" needed to be activated. I confirmed to use it. --> When I logged in next time, the problem was back (screen starts rotated 90 degrees, input device not rotated).
The problem now appear every time I log in.

The problem could hence be related to the "GNOME assistive technology" package.

[Rüdiger Kupper (ruediger.kupper)]

 Another ticket reports the same issue on an asus g74sx: bug #1174830