Bug 474077

Summary:	Make AutoRotation and TabletMode available on Xorg backend
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	dofficialgman
Component:	platform-x11-standalone	Assignee:	KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	X11-only
Version First Reported In:	5.27.7
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description dofficialgman 2023-09-03 04:16:11 UTC

SUMMARY
I have hardware incapable of running wayland (proprietary drivers that only receive security updates).
The device has a touchscreen with IMU correctly mapped and accessible with iio-sensor-proxy.
Only wayland sessions have automatic device rotation available.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. use xorg session
2. see that automatic device rotation is not available

EXPECTED RESULT
autorotation is available in both xorg and wayland sessions

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Ubuntu 23.10 
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.7
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.109.0
Qt Version: 5.15.10

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I was able to find that @romangg was the author of the removal of orientationsensor from drm https://phabricator.kde.org/D26036 and then also addition to the kwayland backend https://phabricator.kde.org/R110:65585290f1098d401c19a645545bea93bf08f2e9

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2023-09-05 20:53:49 UTC

This is intentional right now; X11 development is not a priority and we are planning to switch to Wayland by default in Plasma 6.0.

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2025-05-28 16:35:03 UTC

This won't be implemented, sorry. The X11 session is feature-frozen, so no new X11-specific features will be implemented.