I’ve just received my Framework 12 and I’ve been having a good time. But I realised that the tablet mode doesn’t work with Linux Mint. Is this going to be always like that or are there plans to make Tablet mode more compatible?
Granted, it isn’t a deal breaker. I can still make use of the touch screen when open like a laptop and works great.
the official linux mint guide indicates an issue with this, and suggests using Ubuntu 25.04
Looking to use tablet mode? You need to install Ubuntu 25.04 instead and run the steps provided at step 9 for the 25.04 guide.
When the Framework team posted this guide they noted they suspect it will work in the future when Mint updates the kernel and other libraries (like iio-sensor-proxy )
Well, for me on Fedora 42 it’s working slow - some time has to pass before the laptop starts rotating the screen and the virtual keyboard is showed. I think I had to manually toggle the virtual keyboard, because I wasn’t sure if only time was needed to detect that it’s in tablet mode (easy to do in gnome).
It’s not a deal breaker, because I use it mainly as laptop.
Did y’all ever figure out how to get it working? I’m running gnome on Arch and it doesn’t do anything when I put it in tablet mode (other than disable the keyboard). Sometimes it spams scroll/selection(?) inputs, and this persists after putting it out of tablet mode for a bit. (while typing this, my typing cursor was scrolling up and to the left consistently, even if I reset it with the mouse. It then stopped, after it had been out of tablet mode for a bit.)
The screen does not auto-rotate (as it would need to in the advertised upside down v shape configuration), the on screen keyboard does not show up (I tested it in accessibility options, and it works perfectly fine).
Always Show Accessibility Menu in the Gnome Settings app is a workaround for now, at least to get the onscreen keyboard. But this is definitely not ideal.
I didn’t figure out the cause but i have the same problem, and it seems it works after boot before closing the lid the first time, so it might have something to do with the resume from sleep/hibernate