Raspberry Pi Touchscreen Portrait

I recently wanted to turn my Raspberry Pi Official Touchscreen portrait (i.e. sideways!), which turns out is a bit of pain.

Turning the display is relatively easy but making the touch work is more difficult - there was a set of instructions on the Raspberry Pi forum, but a recent update to Jessie meant they no longer worked, so I pulled this set of instructions together:

Install xinput:

sudo apt-get install xinput

Rotate the display by editing config.txt:

sudo nano /boot/config.txt

.. add this to the buttom of the file:

display_rotate=1

Use Ctrl X, Yes to Save Create a script to rotate the touchscreen:

nano /home/pi/touch_rotate.sh

.. add the following command

xinput --set-prop 'FT5406 memory based driver' 'Coordinate Transformation Matrix'  0 1 0 -1 0 1 0 0 1

Make the script executable:

chmod +x touch_rotate.sh

Make the script run when the GUI starts by editing autostart:

sudo nano ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart

.. add this to the bottom to run your script

@/home/pi/touch_rotate.sh

Reboot:

sudo reboot