Auto-Rotation on KDE Plasma ( Wayland ) – Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Tablet Gen 3

CONTEXT -------- Debian 13 (Trixie) + KDE Plasma 5.27 on Wayland.   Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Tablet Gen 3 (QHD 3000×2000, i7-8550U).   iio-sensor-proxy detects the accelerometer but doesn’t publish orientation on DBus.   Solution: use raw accelerometer values and rotate via kscreen-doctor (KDE’s Wayland tool). REQUIREMENTS ------------- sudo apt install kscreen   Accelerometer visible at /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:device*/in_accel_x_raw FINAL SCRIPT — ~/.local/bin/autorotate-wayland.sh ------------------------------------------------- #!/usr/bin/env bash # Auto-rotate for KDE Plasma (Wayland) – ThinkPad X1 Tablet Gen 3 # Reads raw accelerometer data and rotates screen via kscreen-doctor. # Touch/pen mapping handled automatically by Wayland. # Create ~/.config/autorotate.lock to disable rotation temporarily. OUTPUT_ID="output.1"                                 # from `kscr...
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Papewire and screensharing

When sharing your screen or other forn of sharing, and the notification mention a Pipewire missing funcrionality, just install the package papewire and then load it.

In Debian 12:

$ sudo apt install pipewire

$ systemctl --user start pipewire

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