[WLUG] screen rotated

[Dayringer, Charles]

I have not tried MATE, but heard it is nice.
-cd


On 2018-05-12 01:34 PM, Victor Kareh wrote:
>
> I don't enjoy GNOME, although Ubuntu did a decent job with it. Have 
> you tried MATE?
> -Victor
>
> On May 12, 2018 1:27 PM, "Dayringer, Charles" <dayringer at Izzy.net> wrote:
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>     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:
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>         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> <mailto:dayringer at Izzy.net> wrote:
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>             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:
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>                 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:
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>                     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:
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>                         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:
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>                             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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