Sway on the Framework Laptop 12

junaruga · September 17, 2025, 6:55pm

Are you talking about the display-rotating events, right? The monitor-sensor command can listen to the events. The command is in the iio-sensor-proxy RPM package on Fedora Linux.

$ sudo dnf install iio-sensor-proxy

Then I am using the following script to auto-rotate the display, hooking the events on Sway. Note that swaymsg output is Sway’s command.

You need to install the mawk command to run the script.

$ sudo dnf install mawk

github.com/junaruga/framework-laptop-config

home/.config/sway/config.d/00-framework-laptop-12

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          # vim: set filetype=swayconfig :
          
          gaps inner 4
          output eDP-1 scale 1.0
          
          # Auto-rotate display.
          exec ~/.config/sway/script/auto_rotate_display.sh &
          # Run the gesture daemon lisgd.
          exec ~/bin/lisgd &

github.com/junaruga/framework-laptop-config

home/.config/sway/script/auto_rotate_display.sh

main

#!/bin/bash

set -euo pipefail

monitor-sensor | \
    mawk -W interactive \
    '/Accelerometer orientation changed:/ {print $NF; fflush();}' | \
    while read -r line; do
        case "$line" in
        normal)
            swaymsg output eDP-1 transform 0
            ;;
        bottom-up)
            swaymsg output eDP-1 transform 180
            ;;
        right-up)
            swaymsg output eDP-1 transform 90
            ;;
        left-up)
            swaymsg output eDP-1 transform 270

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If you are using Hyprland, you can check the following thread to find the equivalent script or program on Hyprland.

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