Comment by bee_rider

I recently-ish switched to Ubuntu and tried to give their weird gnome a try, but it just became a nightmare of addons and then the addons started conflicting or something. Anyway I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m not smart enough to use a desktop environment.

For my laptop, I’ve used i3, polybar (to get pretty bar at the top), rofi (a fine launcher), autorandr (detect and switch to my monitor and turn off laptop screen when I plug in), and… a random Arch Linux forum post to get automatic accelerometer based screen rotation going.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=243005

I bet there’s a fancy tool out there but this script seems to work after a little customization, and it is only a couple lines, so it can be understood!