How to rotate mouse or cursor axes on Asus S5n running with ubuntu?

[Appy BoY]

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Well I using Asus S5n and it powered by ubuntu. I wanted to rotate my touchpad settings on my laptop. Without restarting xorg so that I will be able to use make use of rotate-screen command with rotate-cursor. Any help to resolve the matter will be appreciated. Thanks a lot in advance.

[Sitia]

I got below mentioned solution and hope it will be useful to you.
You have to enable xrandr on your system. if you have not installed xrandr then run below mentioned command to install the same.

sudo apt-get install x11-xserver-utils

now you have to add below mentioned lines to xorg.conf file

Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
	...		...
	Option		"RandRRotation" "true"
EndSection

After that you have to rotate the screen by using below mentioned command.

xrandr -o [right,left,inverted,normal]

[Vitel]

in order to enable touchpad XY flip you will need to do below mentioned thing.

you have to modify xorg.conf by using below mentioned code

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
        Driver          "synaptics"
        Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Protocol"              "auto-dev"
        Option          "SHMConfig"             "true"
EndSection

Now install below mentioned packages.

sudo apt-get build-dep xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
apt-get source xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

after doing that you have to patch as well as compile the new drivers.

Now you have to backup the original drivers

mkdir original_drivers
cp -p /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so original_drivers/
cp -p /usr/bin/synclient original_drivers/ 
 and install the latest version of drivers.
sudo cp synclient /usr/bin/
sudo cp synaptics_drv.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/

it can be used in below mentioned manner.

synclient Xrandr=0
xrandr --orientation normal

synclient Xrandr=1
xrandr --orientation right

synclient Xrandr=2
xrandr --orientation left

synclient Xrandr=3
xrandr --orientation inverted

[DakshaMira]

Even you can also create a simple script which will allow you to rotate screen as well as mouse/touchpad. You should create a file names rotation and copy paste the same as follow

#!/bin/sh
if   [ $1 = "normal" ] ; then
    synclient Xrandr=0
    xrandr --orientation normal
elif [ $1 = "right" ] ; then
    synclient Xrandr=1
    xrandr --orientation right
elif [ $1 = "left" ] ; then
        synclient Xrandr=2
    xrandr --orientation left
elif [ $1 = "inverted" ] ; then
    synclient Xrandr=3
    xrandr --orientation inverted
else
    echo "rotation [normal,righ,left,inverted]"
fi

after that you have to execute

chmod +x rotation
sudo cp -p rotation /usr/local/bin/

[Ticod]

Well after going through the problem of yours I am suggesting to use below mentioned line in xorg.conf.

Option          "SHMConfig"             "on"

[Loveyboo]

If you check file /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so and $OWN_COMPILED/src/.libs/synaptics_drv.so. you will find out 'stripped' / 'not stripped'.
Hence you have to use

strip $OWN_COMPILED/src/.libs/synaptics_drv.so

as far as synclient is concerned you have to use synclient and driver.

cp $OWN_COMPILED/tools/synclient  /usr/bin/synclient

another option is to use full path.

[CGale]

Well I am posting below a script file which help you to get the requirement of yours.

#!/bin/bash
rotate=`cat ~/.screen-orientation`
echo $rotate
	if [ "$rotate" = "normal" ];
	then
	rotate="left"
	wacom="CCW"
	synaptics="1"
	else
		if [ "$rotate" = "left" ];
		then
		rotate="inverted";
		wacom="HALF";
		synaptics="2"
		else
			if [ "$rotate" = "inverted" ];
			then
			rotate="right";
			wacom="CW";
			synaptics="3"
			else
				if [ "$rotate" = "right" ];
				then
				rotate="normal";
				wacom="NONE";
				synaptics="0"
				fi
			fi
		fi
	fi
echo "rotate = "$rotate
echo "wacom = "$wacom
xrandr -o "$rotate";
xsetwacom set "12" Rotate "$wacom";
xsetwacom set "13" Rotate "$wacom";
xsetwacom set "11" Rotate "$wacom";
synclient orientation="$synaptics"
echo $rotate > ~/.screen-orientation;

[Aniela]

• You can use below mentioned bash script which you will be able to call from the keyboard shortcuts.

  #!/bin/bash
  
  # this script changes screen orientation, and also the touchpad orientation. uses xrandr and synclient commands.
  # also used xserver-xorg-input-synptics patch from https://launchpad.net/~aapo-rantalai...aporantalainen
  
  case $1 in
  0)
    xrandr -o normal
    synclient Orientation=0 
    ;;
  1)
    xrandr -o left
    synclient Orientation=1 
    ;;
  2)
   xrandr -o inverted
    synclient Orientation=2 
    ;;
  3)
    xrandr -o right
  synclient Orientation=3 
    ;;
  
   echo "pass parameter 0-3"
    ;;
  esac

• you should save the above mentioned file at the home folder.
• Now give an executable privileges by running below mentioned command

• chmod +x orientscreen.sh

• now you have to add custom shortcut in Keyboard Shortcuts
• 'normal orientation' by using below mentioned command

• /home/...[other folders]/orientscreen.sh 0

• Finally you should set keyboard shortcut with SUPER key + UpArrow

[ZAHAR]

After going through the requirement of yours run,

xrandr-align monitor --input="My touchpad device"

the touchpad of yours would rotate as per the screen rotations. It would remain in foreground and it would listen to RandR events. In order to get the name of the input device you should run

xrandr-align list-input

the latest version is having support for the screen rotation which has been reported by gravisensor as an input device.