as far as landscape, rotate, on home screen the shoe is no, it won't work. This is a feature that has to be built it to the launcer. As an opt there are apps in the play store that will do this look for auto screen rotate.
Second. For the lock screen swipe down, for some variants you need to have a lock enabled, like knock or a password. Try that and let us know.
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