Awesome WM screen rotation

This is a module for awesome wm which enables the user to rotate the screen. It saves the rotation per tag which means that the screen will reorient when switching tags.

Download

git clone https://github.com/raksooo/screenrotation.git ~/.config/awesome/screenrotation

Usage

Import:

local rotate = require('screenrotation')

Set globalkeys:

globalkeys = gears.table.join(
  ...

  awful.key({ super }, "Up", function() rotate("normal") end,
    {description = "Normal tag rotation", group = "tag"}),
  awful.key({ super }, "Down", function() rotate("inverted") end,
    {description = "Inverted tag rotation", group = "tag"}),
  awful.key({ super }, "Left", function() rotate("left") end,
    {description = "Counter-clockwise tag rotation", group = "tag"}),
  awful.key({ super }, "Right", function() rotate("right") end,
    {description = "Clockwise tag rotation", group = "tag"})
)

Dependencies

Awesome wm
xrandr
xinput