Has anyone else noticed this one?
Recently, quite often when I push the power button, the screen lights up in landscape mode, with the on screen elements (background, unlock keyboard) being a lot bigger than normal.
In this mode the buttons are active (at least the ones that are visible), but the screen does not rotate, nor does it adapt to fit the window. The only way to correct this, is to switcn off and on the phone with the power button.
No biggy, nevertheless very annoying.
It is not in any page on the Settings menu. I found it the other day when someone here told me to slide down the main screen from the top.
(Same place as on a 'droid you find Airplane Mode or the Flashlight.)
It is that cocked rectangle symbol underneath the Bluetooth icon on the right. About midway.
If it is blue your screen will rotate, otherwise it wonāt.
If you turn it on when horizontal, it will lock horizontal.
No need to power off. You can just rotate back via the settings menu (https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/issues/914). Note that this only happens when you have lock time != blank time and automatic rotation enabled. See https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/merge_requests/1227
If thereās other situations where it happens and the MR doesnāt fix it please add that to the MRs comments.
Ah, thanks, Guido. I will wait for it to happen again to test your solution.
(I was thinking it might be down to the fact that I have set the background-size of the lockscreen to ācoverā in gtk.css. I donāt know what the other options are for this. Is there a good phosh documentation for settings like this to be found online? Iāve found some documentation, but not on these matters.)
Thanks, Tracy.
Thanks this helped. BTW, what does āMRā mean?
I just got my L5 a few days ago, so sorry if I donāt have all of the proper names of things down yet.
To be clear, I canāt unlock the L5 because the lower half of the pin keyboard is off the long side of the phone. The only buttons I see are 1 2 and 3. I guess I could change my passcode to use only 1 2 or 3. lol,
Iām seeing this challenge when screen is in auto-rotate mode and somehow when I try to get the phone to come back to life. It comes up in landscape mode asking for the PIN but I canāt see the whole unlock screen. ā¦
Yes, from the above tip, I can
The alternative is to hold the power button down and force a hard device reset.
Yes, thatās about it. Both work.
What happens if you take it out of auto-rotate with a short press and then restart.
A short press takes it from auto-rotate to do do-not-rotate . But this keeps it locked in landscape mode. So the bottom of the unlock screen is still not visible.
Merge Request.
I saw this also, big annoyance. I emailed Support over the weekend about this issue as well.
I got stuck on the lock screen in landscape recently as well. Luckily I was home so I could plug in a keyboard and type my pin code to unlock 
Iāve noticed the lock screen goes into landscape mode if before suspending/turning of the screen, it was viewing something in landscape, e.g. a full-screen picture.
The only way to re-enter the phone is to plug in a keyboard, or do a hard reset, as the PIN entry is cut off below 123. Would be nice for it to adapt to a landscape screen, or just force portrait.
It is not the only way. Check out Guidoās reply up aboveā¦
This happened to me too, and clicking the rotation toggle mode only switched auto-rotation on and off (but auto-rotation was non-functional, making this useless) rather than changing it manually as I wanted. I was eventually able to fix it by turning the phone into lockdown mode by turning off all the hardware kill switches, which allowed me to toggle it manually, then switching them all back on again. I wish the GUI would let one manually rotate without requiring this.
It does. Hold the rotate button
For me, it is the opposite. When I started using the Librem 5, text wold shrinks to 1/2 or 1/4 the of normal size, default being 100% magnification. Then I canāt read it easily, need a magnifying glass. So I reboot. That usualy or always corrects this problem. Lately that has not happened, maybe due to updates, fixing bugs.
Best to avoid that kind of hard shutdown if possible. Itās the same as doing it to your laptop or desktop system.
Just swipe down from the top of the screen (which is on one of the sides when you are in landscape mode), and hold the rotation button u till it is no longer in auto mode. Then switch to portrait. Then hold the button again to switch back to auto.
Maybe the solution is pretty simple, but it is still annoying when the bug happens multiple times a dayā¦