Libreboot X200 Tablet now available on Minifree. With Trisquel 8 preinstalled

But what about the "outdoor" display?

Okay, my bad. Here's a more detailed explanation. First of all you need to have packages installed which provide "xrandr" and "xsetwacom". These are probably "x11-xserver-util" and "xserver-xorg-input-wacom". I already had them installed so no problems there. A possible reason why the above script did nothing for you might be this: if pressing the bezel button didn't already rotate your screen, then the script would do nothing (by design).

I made the following three scripts. Use them depending on what's your situation.

* rotate_only_stylus.sh: Use this if you only want to set the stylus to your screen's orientation. Caveat: in the MATE-desktop pressing the bezel rotation button will always rotate the screen (but not the stylus). So this would happen when I add that bezel button as a keyboard shortcut to this script in the MATE desktop: once I press the button, first MATE intercepts the signal and rotates the screen, then it notices that it's a keyboard shortcut and runs my script, which sets the stylus orientation the same as the screen. Victory!

* rotate_screen.sh: Use this is you only want to rotate the display, or if your desktop environment will automatically set the stylus orientation based on the screen orientation. This was the right one for me when I tried the Trisquel 7 live USB hanging around (I run Parabola from the hard drive).

* rotate_stylus_and_screen.sh: Use this if your desktop enviroment does absolutely nothing automatically ;) I installed the very lightweight LXDE to try, and this was the script that made both the display and the stylus rotate correctly.

Here are the scripts:


#!/bin/bash
#
# rotate_screen.sh
#
# * The script below finds the current rotation, and and rotates the screen
# to the next orientation by 90 counterclockwise.
#
# * To rotate only the stylus (i.e. if your display is already rotated
# by your deskop environment), use "rotate_only_stylus.sh"
#
# * To rotate both the stylus and the screen (i.e. if your stulys acts weird
# after running this script), use "rotate_stylus_and_screen.sh"
#
# Find the line in "xrandr -q --verbose" output that contains current screen orientation and "strip" out current orientation.
rotation="$(xrandr -q --verbose | grep 'connected' | egrep -o '\) (normal|left|inverted|right) \(' | egrep -o '(normal|left|inverted|right)')"
# Using current screen orientation proceed to rotate screen.
case "$rotation" in
normal)
# rotate to left (counterclockwise)
xrandr -o left
;;
left)
# rotate to inverted
xrandr -o inverted
;;
inverted)
# rotate to right
xrandr -o right
;;
right)
# rotate to the normal orientation
xrandr -o normal
;;
esac



#!/bin/bash
#
# rotate_only_stulys.sh
#
# * The script below finds the current rotation, and makes the wacom
# driver set that same rotation for the stylus.
#
# * To rotate the display too, use "rotate_stylus_and_screen.sh"
#
# * To rotate only the screen (i.e. if the stylus acts weird after
# running this script), use "rotate_screen.sh"
#
#
# Find the line in "xrandr -q --verbose" output that contains current screen orientation and "strip" out current orientation.
rotation="$(xrandr -q --verbose | grep 'connected' | egrep -o '\) (normal|left|inverted|right) \(' | egrep -o '(normal|left|inverted|right)')"
# Find the device name from the STYLUS-entry in "xsetwacom list"
device="$(xsetwacom list | grep STYLUS | sed -E "s/( |\t)*id:.*//")"
# Using current screen orientation proceed to rotate input tools.
case "$rotation" in
normal)
# rotate to the normal
xsetwacom set "$device" rotate none
;;
left)
# rotate to left (counterclockwise)
xsetwacom set "$device" rotate ccw
;;
inverted)
# rotate to inverted
xsetwacom set "$device" rotate half
;;
right)
# rotate to right
xsetwacom set "$device" rotate cw
;;
esac



#!/bin/bash
#
# rotate_stylus_and_screen.sh
#
# * The script below finds the current display rotation, rotates the
# display by 90 degrees counterclockwise, and makes the wacom driver
# set that same rotation for the stylus.
#
# * To rotate only the stylus (i.e. if your display is already rotated
# by your deskop environment), use "rotate_only_stylus.sh"
#
# * To rotate only the screen (i.e. if the stylus acts weird after
# running this script), use "rotate_screen.sh"
#
#
# Find the line in "xrandr -q --verbose" output that contains current screen orientation and "strip" out current orientation.
rotation="$(xrandr -q --verbose | grep 'connected' | egrep -o '\) (normal|left|inverted|right) \(' | egrep -o '(normal|left|inverted|right)')"
# Find the device name from the STYLUS-entry in "xsetwacom list"
device="$(xsetwacom list | grep STYLUS | sed -E "s/( |\t)*id:.*//")"
# Using current screen orientation proceed to rotate screen and input tools.
case "$rotation" in
normal)
# rotate to the normal
xrandr -o left
xsetwacom set "$device" rotate ccw
;;
left)
# rotate to left (counter clockwise)
xrandr -o inverted
xsetwacom set "$device" rotate half
;;
inverted)
# rotate to inverted
xrandr -o right
xsetwacom set "$device" rotate cw
;;
right)
# rotate to right
xrandr -o normal
xsetwacom set "$device" rotate none
;;
esac