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This question is for computers without a rotation sensor. For computers with a rotation sensor, autorotate can work in GNOME and KDE. See this question.

I have a touch screen Chromebook (natively) running Ubuntu MATE 22.04.

The screen can be partially flipped, and I want to use the Chromebook as a tablet. There is no automatic rotation.

I can rotate the display in Displays -> Rotation -> Upside Down. However, that does not rotate the touch events.

For example, if I touch the top part of the screen (which now hosts of the bottom of the desktop because the display is flipped upside down in the settings), it opens menu in the top part of the desktop.

How to flip the touch events as well?

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The autorotate tool can do this.

First, download the tool from github, and unzip the binary named autorotate in $HOME/.local/bin. (In case you did not have the hidden folder .local/bin, create it, logout, and login).

Run chmod +x $HOME/.local/bin/autorotate to mark it as executable.

Next, detect your screen type using autorotate.

autorotate list

For me, the screen type is eDP-1.

Check that the command autorotate invert --display eDP-1 inverts the display, and the command autorotate normal --display eDP-1 restores the display orientation.

Finally, open Keyboard shortcuts, and assign custom keyboard shortcuts with these commands, so that you can quickly rotate the display (I am using ctrl + alt + ↑ and ctrl + alt + ↓),

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