[WLUG] screen rotated

[Dayringer, Charles]

Turns out that the Ubuntu 18.04 documentation is wrong for how to 
control rotation! The way described in their documentation doesn't 
exist, but there are some tiny buttons at the bottom of the system 
settings dropdown menu in the top bar. None of these buttons have any 
popup descriptions, but I started clicking on them to see what they do, 
and one of them is apparently to lock screen rotation. Seems to be so 
far, anyway, not flipping around randomly every 20 seconds anymore. 
Fingers crossed!

Since the method in their documentation doesn't exist, I don't know how 
someone could control their rotation if they did want to.

Guess I'll try the Gnome interface for a little while to check it out 
further. So far, I'm not impressed. XFCE is so much more straightforward 
& clear, I may go back to that.

-cd




On 2018-05-10 10:17 PM, Victor Kareh wrote:
>
> LMAO!
>
> Sorry, you must be frustrated about this, but I couldn't resist 
> laughing at your last post. The whole thing seems comically absurd :/
>
> So thinking about this, you might be right about hardware problem... 
> Some laptops have a function key at the top to either rotate or cycle 
> through screens (for projectors). Try to find that key. Maybe it's sticky?
>
> On May 10, 2018 9:44 PM, "Dayringer, Charles" <dayringer at Izzy.net> wrote:
>
>     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> <mailto: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> <mailto: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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