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Idea #396: Switch my Monitor from Landscape mode to Portrait mode on the fly.

Written by bruce.hobson the 29 Feb 08 at 01:33. Category: Graphics. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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I would like to switch my Monitor from Landscape mode to Portrait mode on the fly. Say by right clicking on the desktop like I do in MS Windows at this time.

In any of the Linux's, I have to edit the xorg.conf file to make this change and it's not on the fly.

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Written by bruce.hobson the 29 Feb 08 at 01:33.
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piti wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 13:10
you can easily do that with xrandr --rotate value, value is one of normal,inverted,left or right

CAsurfer wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 14:48
piti, as far as I can tell, xrandr doesn't support rotation under catalyst/fglrx. If the Ubuntu community could get AMD/ATI to provide better rotation support, Ubuntu would suddenly have access the the world of tablet pc users with ATI cards.

Hawke wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 19:23
Sounds like a driver problem, not so much an idea for a feature of Ubuntu as it is a bugfix.

Mr Al wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 00:52
piti - you're right, it is possible to do this using the command line. It would be nice for there to be a Gnome applet that will do this though, especially for people who are new to Linux.

bryce wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 08:51
http://bryceharrington.org/drupal/display-config-1

rawsausage wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 16:17
Xrandr.

knuckles wrote on the 2 Mar 08 at 10:32
There is a kde tray applet that will do this for you: krandrtray . Works under gnome too. No need to be messing around the command line :)

bruce.hobson wrote on the 3 Mar 08 at 05:58
Post from Newbie:

root@gateway-desktop:/home/bruce# xrandr -o left
Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0".
RandR extension missing
root@gateway-desktop:/home/bruce#
root@gateway-desktop:/home/bruce# apt-get -y install xrandr
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
xrandr is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

?????

I don't need this BS all I what is to click and select...

Bruce :-(

Eldmannen wrote on the 15 Mar 08 at 20:25
Change things on-the-fly is good! :)

Nikos.Alexandris wrote on the 18 Sep 08 at 18:12
I've just try II-Alpha5 and seems to be working... more or less! I bootet the 64-bit Live-CD and installed afterwards the proprietary ATI driver 8.552 (aka 8.8). Rotation works with the command line (e.g. xrandr -o left) but not with the GUI-tool.

I really would like to see this working :-)

P.S. My laptop is a Samsung R20 with ATI X1250.

Nikos.Alexandris wrote on the 19 Sep 08 at 01:14
I want to report that the pivot function works now under Hardy for an X1250 ati graphic card for both the laptop's and an external attached display (clone mode) on-the-fly using the displayconfig-gtk utility. Yet, the grandr tool seems to work better. One problem I face is the refresh rate in a rotated left full screen external display: it's too slow.

Hopefully II will have all these issues fixed. Not sure who is really behind this great job but I would like to express a Bravo and a Thank you. Keep up the good work.

Nikos

Nikos.Alexandris wrote on the 19 Sep 08 at 01:16
Sorry, I forgot to mention that I used the latest closed-source ati driver 8.9.


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