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<font size="+1">I have not tried MATE, but heard it is nice.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2018-05-12 01:34 PM, Victor Kareh
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<p dir="ltr">I don't enjoy GNOME, although Ubuntu did a decent job
with it. Have you tried MATE?<br>
-Victor</p>
<div class="quote">On May 12, 2018 1:27 PM, "Dayringer, Charles"
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<div> <font size="+1">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!<br>
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Since the method in their documentation doesn't exist, I
don't know how someone could control their rotation if
they did want to.<br>
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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.<br>
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<div>On 2018-05-10 10:17 PM, Victor Kareh wrote:<br>
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<p dir="ltr">LMAO!</p>
<p dir="ltr">Sorry, you must be frustrated about this, but
I couldn't resist laughing at your last post. The whole
thing seems comically absurd :/</p>
<p dir="ltr">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?</p>
<div>On May 10, 2018 9:44 PM, "Dayringer, Charles" <a
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<div> <font size="+1">Now, in the middle of me typing
this, it just flipped to be sideways right, then
flipped back sideways left.<br>
Weird.<br>
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I tried:<br>
xrandr -o normal<br>
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)<br>
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I just hope I don't have to do this too often...<br>
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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.<br>
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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)<br>
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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? <br>
OOOF! Sideways again!!! F**K!<br>
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<div>On 2018-05-10 09:11 PM, Victor Kareh wrote:<br>
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<pre>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" <a href="mailto:dayringer@Izzy.net" moz-do-not-send="true"><dayringer@Izzy.net></a> wrote:
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<pre>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.
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charles@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@sunfish:~$
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<pre>Nice. Would you mind posting the output for `xrandr`? I've never seen this issue.On May 10, 2018 7:15 PM, "Dayringer, Charles" <a href="mailto:dayringer@izzy.net" moz-do-not-send="true"><dayringer@izzy.net></a> wrote:
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<pre>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?
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