Issues related to display rotation, regardless of display type.
Questions tagged [display-rotation]
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How to turn off screen rotation in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS?
In Ubuntu 17.04 there was 'Rotation' menu in Display tab. But now in new version of Ubuntu, there's still a Display tab but no more rotation menu. Now I can't turn that off again since I upgraded to 18.04 LTS.
Aiden
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Screen randomly rotates on Ubuntu 17.10
I have an HP Pavilion 14 inch laptop.
I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 17.04 to 17.10.
Everything went well, but when I boot up the system, my screen rotation was set to left.
Then I tried using xandr to rotate my screen, but my every effort…
tushar
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How to rotate screen in Ubuntu using terminal?
Recently I booted Ubuntu 18.04 Live USB and I faced annoying problem. Screen was rotated and there was no rotate options in settings. I had to search not so obvious places in Internet, so I share this Q&A.
Qback
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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Display flashes and turns upside down - How to fix?
Upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, lately having weird display issues with my HP laptop Where in my display flashes and turns upside down.
How to fix this issue?
Anirudh Karanam
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Ubuntu keeps randomly rotates screen
I recently installed the latest ubuntu 18 and randomly the screen just rotates, i usually have to CTRL+ALT+T to bring up the terminal and do xrandr -o normal to get back the screen display correctly. I have gone through the internet in search of the…
lulliezy
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Display on second monitor misbehaves in portrait mode with Nvidia GTX GPU on Ubuntu 20.04
After upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04 today I found that my monitor configuration is not working properly any more. I have a 4k primary display in landscape and a 1080p secondary display in portrait (right) mode next to it on the right. I have an ATO GTX…
Bass850
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Use accelerometer to rotate screen
lsmod | grep acc
hp_accel 28672 0
lis3lv02d 20480 1 hp_accel
How do I get output out of this thing?
and there's xrandr --output eDP1 --rotate normal or inverted or left or right. I want to use the sensor output to…
842Mono
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What process is responsible for auto-screen rotation? I want to disable it (on 16.04)
currently I'm trying to disable the process which is responsible for handling the auto-screen rotation on my Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro, which is enabled by default.
So far I did some research on the packages iio-sensor-proxy and inotify-tools, but I…
teufelsfrucht
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Set up autorotate of screen in 18.10 with Wayland
I tried following this guide which apparently worked back in 2016. Is there an equivalent method that might work with Wayland? I saw somewhere that Gnome now supports it but my display settings only show a way to set the screen orientation manually.
vince
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How to rotate touch screen input on Ubuntu 16.04?
A system got a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS. The connected ELO touch display works fine in landscape mode. Having the display being installed in clockwise rotated portrait format, led to switching the display mode to portrait via the System…
alex
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not able to use xrandr after booting ubuntu tablet with nomodeset
I have installed ubuntu 14.04 in my intel-z3735f baytrail tablet. I can boot this device and get the desktop only with nomodeset parameter.(When booted without nomodeset getting blank screen) But when I boot in this mode I am not able to use xrandr…
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How can I rotate my notebook screen 90 degrees although 'xrandr --rotate' does not support it?
I've got an Acer Aspire E5-773G notebook with those graphics-related specs:
Card-1: Intel Sky Lake Integrated Graphics
Card-2: NVIDIA GM108M [GeForce 940M]
Display Server: X.Org 1.18.3 driver: nvidia Resolution: 1920x1080@60.03hz
GLX Renderer:…
Byte Commander
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Screen rotates after closing HP laptop's lid with Ubuntu 18.04.2
I have checked other posts about randomly rotating screens, and screens that rotate after sleep. I have tried the following to no avail:
Lock screen rotation:
Problem persists.
Disable GNOME orientation plugin:
gsettings set…
Joshua Besneatte
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Can Ubuntu dock be at the bottom when screen is rotated?
I have a touchy laptop, and with Ubuntu 18, the screen rotates with it.
Superb. However, normally the dock is at the left (which for screen real estate is optimal), but when the screen is in portrait mode, it ought to be at the bottom.
Is this…
Angorano
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Display and cursor are out of sync on Ubuntu 18.04 tablet
So I just upgraded my tablet from 16.04 to 18.04, and now the display has gone completely out of whack. At the login screen, my display is inverted, but the cursor and touchscreen are both completely normal. After logging in, the display and cursor…
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