Xibo

Ubuntu TwinView Portrait 40" 1080p TV

Asked by Elliot Gardner

Making some display units for the floors of an office building.

Ubuntu 10.04
Has anyone managed to get TwinView working properly for two TVs with Xibo?

Actually i'm just trying one for now, can't get the res of the xibo client in full screen to sit right. Have rotated the desktop on ubuntu clockwise using

Option "RandRRotation" "On"
Option "Rotate" "CW"

But Xibo is starting towards the middle.

I have my layout set for 9:16

site.cfg height and width, tested combinations of 800x450 (as it is in the layout) also 1080x1920 and 1050x1680 etc.

And unrelated to Xibo, has anyone been able to clone twinview two monitors with ubuntu? I got this working ok, but as soon as i apply the rotation to get them into Portrait it breaks.

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said : 		#1

You leave the desktop as it is (ie not rotated) and use the rotation options
in the client configuration.

Alex

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pascal (pascal-5) said : 		#2

Could you please explain how to use the rotation options in the python client setup file.
I need to have a 9:16 formated screen in Ubunto 10.04

Could you please help

BR/Pascal van Dooren

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said : 		#3

You define the actual screen resolution as normal. Then you specify
the rotated size and orientation. So for a 1080p display turned 90
degrees, you'd configure:

width=1920
height=1080
fullscreen=true

# Settings for rotation
# vwidth/vheight are the virtual screen that will be used instead of
the actual screen
# Size acordingly
# vrotation is the angle in degrees to rotate. 90 would be a 90
degrees rotation clockwise.
vwidth=1080
vheight=1920
vrotation=90

The second size values are necessary because if you wanted to rotate
the screen by say 45 degrees instead, you'd need to make it smaller
than the original screen resolution to make it fit in the display.

Alex

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pascal (pascal-5) said : 		#4

Hi alex,

Thanks for your quick support!
It is working correctly now!

Met vriendelijke groet,

Visual Thinking
Stoomlederplein 30
5121 ZT Rijen

Tel.06.24387842
Http://www.visualthinking.nl

Op 2 sep. 2011 om 15:45 heeft Alex Harrington <email address hidden> het volgende geschreven:

> Question #152054 on Xibo changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/xibo/+question/152054
>
> Alex Harrington proposed the following answer:
> You define the actual screen resolution as normal. Then you specify
> the rotated size and orientation. So for a 1080p display turned 90
> degrees, you'd configure:
>
> width=1920
> height=1080
> fullscreen=true
>
> # Settings for rotation
> # vwidth/vheight are the virtual screen that will be used instead of
> the actual screen
> # Size acordingly
> # vrotation is the angle in degrees to rotate. 90 would be a 90
> degrees rotation clockwise.
> vwidth=1080
> vheight=1920
> vrotation=90
>
> The second size values are necessary because if you wanted to rotate
> the screen by say 45 degrees instead, you'd need to make it smaller
> than the original screen resolution to make it fit in the display.
>
> Alex
>
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