How can I permenantly turn off screen rotation?

[exploder]

I have an HP 17-121 wm laptop I am running 18.04 on. The screen rotates randomly all the time! It happens on the GDM even in the middle of logging on and at all kinds of crazy random times! I have searched online for a way to kill this feature with no luck. The button for the feature seems to do nothing. This is driving me crazy! Is there a way to get rid of this feature or permanently turn it off?

[#&thj^%]

This has been an issue since 17.10 and possibly earlier.

FTR: "xrandr" does not work on Wayland.

See if this helps:


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

Additionally, the below command ought/should disable the orientation plugin completely.



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

Also, gnome provides an option to rotate the screen from Settings->>>Devices->>>Displays->>>Orientation setting (search for displays in Activities)
Which you say it dose not work.

[exploder]

Thanks! I ran both commands. Hope it takes care of that extremely annoying behavior permanently.

[exploder]

Well, that worked fo a few days... This morning when I booted up the GDM appeared sideways. After logging on the desktop rotated to normal but this is by far the most annoying problem I have ever dealt with.

[simonsoelberg]

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchscreen orientation-lock true
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.orientation active false



This seems to have fixed a similar problem on my computer (rotating the laptop would make the screen go blank or flip upside down, now it doesn't). Thanks! :)

(Ubuntu 18.04, HP Zbook 15)

[Glasairman]

This seems to have fixed a similar problem on my computer (rotating the laptop would make the screen go blank or flip upside down, now it doesn't). Thanks! :)

(Ubuntu 18.04, HP Zbook 15)

Make your life easier with dconf-editor & follow the chain as in the gsettings you were recommended by others above

[slickymaster]

18.04 is no longer in development stage

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