[WLUG] screen rotated

[Dayringer, Charles]

Now, in the middle of me typing this, it just flipped to be sideways 
right, then flipped back sideways left.
Weird.

I tried:
xrandr -o normal
and it did flip back to normal (took me a few tries - I had to look up 
xrandr --help to get the correct command, and typing with my head 
twisted sideways had me making errors)

I just hope I don't have to do this too often...

Yeah, this is a new clean install - I normally use Ubuntu Studio, as I 
like xfce, but thought I'd try the new gnome thing.

The only thing I can think of is that I installed gnome-shell-extensions 
because it was supposed to allow me to try different gnome themes (but 
it didn't - that option is still grayed out in the settings, so maybe 
something went wrong with that)

D'oh! Just flipped upside down. Damn. I saw the sideways thing a couple 
of times with my Ubuntu Studio login page lately, but never once it got 
going. Maybe it's a hardware problem?
OOOF! Sideways again!!! F**K!
-cd



On 2018-05-10 09:11 PM, Victor Kareh wrote:
> Yeah that checks... Try running `xrandr --rotate normal`. It _should_ go back to normal. But we need to figure out what's making it do that.
>
> It almost sounds like dbus is reporting your screen to be rotated, and the gnome settings daemon (you're using gnome I assume?) is triggering the randr plugin to refresh its config.
>
> Is this a clean install?
>
> I couldn't find anything obvious on launchpad, so maybe a stray key binding?On May 10, 2018 7:31 PM, "Dayringer, Charles" <dayringer at Izzy.net> wrote:
>> sometimes it blanks out & then goes upside down for a bit, then blanks
>> out & goes back sideways.
>> when I go to the display settings, there is no option for rotation,
>> although there is supposed to be.
>> -cd
>>
>> charles at sunfish:~$ sudo xrandr
>> [sudo] password for charles:
>> Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 900 x 1600, maximum 16384 x 16384
>> eDP connected primary 900x1600+0+0 left (normal left inverted right x
>> axis y axis) 382mm x 215mm
>>     1600x900      60.00*+  40.00
>>     1440x900      59.99
>>     1280x854      59.95
>>     1280x800      59.96
>>     1280x720      59.97
>>     1152x768      59.95
>>     1024x768      59.95
>>     800x600       59.96
>>     848x480       59.94
>>     720x480       59.94
>>     640x480       59.94
>> HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
>> charles at sunfish:~$
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2018-05-10 07:25 PM, Victor Kareh wrote:
>>> Nice. Would you mind posting the output for `xrandr`? I've never seen this issue.On May 10, 2018 7:15 PM, "Dayringer, Charles" <dayringer at izzy.net> wrote:
>>>> I have installed ubuntu 18.04, it was working fine for a day, but now when I start up, I log in ok, it appears normal for about a minute, then rotates 90 degrees left, making it nearly impossible to use.
>>>> What happened?
>>>> HP pavilion laptop - I've been running various distros fine on this machine for a couple of years, I don't know how to get it to stay horizontal. What can I do?
>>>> -cd

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