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How to make primary display rotate

Asked by John Hart

I see that the rotation of a second monitor is supported in the 8.04LTS Xorg 7.3, but nothing is mentioned about rotating the primary monitor. I have a 22-inch monitor that is made to rotate 90 degrees (from horizontal wide to vertical tall). This is so that documents (like our current paper size of 8.5 X 11) can be entirely shown.

How does one get the primary monitor image to rotate?

The System>Preferences>Screen Resolution pull down does not allow changes except resolution.

I am using 8.04LTS an AMD Athlon 64 2X CPU, PNY nvidia 7300GT GPU.

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Selene ToyKeeper (toykeeper) said : 		#1

I do this on my system with a couple of small scripts:

  ~/bin/xportrait:
    xrandr --output VGA --rotate left

  ~/bin/xlandscape:
    xrandr --output VGA --rotate normal

You may need to change the "VGA" part, perhaps to DVI-0 or similar. However, the rest should be the same.

I know this solution isn't part of a GUI, but I find it easier to type than click when the monitor is rotated anyway.

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