Questions tagged [display-rotation]
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Default portrait mode for Ubuntu 20.04.1 lts
I am needing to have Ubuntu default to portrait mode rather than landscape regardless of what monitor I plug into.
Everywhere I searched either suggested manually changing the screens, or using xrandr,...
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Inputs in portrait mode are only working on half of the screen
I have a Surface Go tablet with Ubuntu DDE 20.10 installed, and I'm using the following script to rotate its screen.
#!/bin/sh
# Auto rotate screen based on device orientation
# Receives input from ...
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Gnome 3.38 doesn't rotates screen automatically
Ubuntu 20.04 with Gnome 3.36 used to rotate screen automatically when I rotated the device, the new Ubuntu 20.10 with Gnome 3.38 doesn't do it. I've tried with ctrl+oto see if the automatic rotation ...
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Screen Rotation on 20.04 with Gnome 3.36 not working as expected
I have the following problem:
Screen rotation works like a charm but there is an annoying problem:
When i try to open a video in fullscreen mode the screen orientation switches after about 2 seconds (...
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Reactive auto-rotation on ubuntu
I started having a problem with the autorotation fuction long after the 20.10 update, one day it stopped working. The lock/unlock button on the power screen dissapered. The iio-sensor-proxy is working ...
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Screen rotation shortcuts in login without editing files
I have a netbook that allows screen rotation. The problem is that it only will rotate sideways, and once it does, won't get horizontal again, no matter how I move the machine.
To add to the problem, ...
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Auto rotation to left or right is inverted
I recently bought a Lenovo Yoga 11e (5th Gen) 2 in 1 laptop. I immediately installed Ubuntu and everything works great.
Well, except one small issue. When I rotate the laptop either left or right (90 ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 install on new Lenovo Ideapad 5 AMD - No sreen rotation option, Tablet mode dyfunctional and no fingerprint option
Just bought a new a Lenovo Ideapad 5 with AMD Ryzen 4500. Dual booting Ubuntu and Windows 10. The following features are missing despite following the steps in Ubuntu Wiki Documentation. Any solutions ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 - screen keeps rotating on its own [duplicate]
I installed Ubuntu 20.04 on a Dell Latitude laptop.
After a few minutes, the screen suddenly rotated 90 degrees to the right.
It just seemed to have happened on its own. Possibly shortly after ...
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Screen rotates despite rotation lock on Asus Transformer Book T100HA
I recently installed Ubuntu 20.04 on an old Asus Transformer Book T100HA that I found online. It's working really well apart from the camera (as expected), bluetooth (seems to be working at random ...
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Kubuntu sddm rotated login screen (20.04)
The login screen has the wrong rotation(portrait). After I log in the rotation is like it should be (landscape).
Where/how do I change the screen rotation of the login screen for kubuntu sddm?
I am ...
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How to emulate a vertical screen in Xubuntu guest?
I am using an Xubuntu guest virtual machine with Virt-Manager, Spice, and QXL. I want to rotate the virtual display to be vertical so as to fit my monitor.
Stuff I tried:
Settings > Display in ...
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Dual monitor setup with portrait monitor - How to turn off artificially larger screen?
I think I'm turning slightly mad with this problem. I can't seem to find any other questions or solutions regarding this, yet it seems like a scenario a lot of ubuntu developers would have encountered ...
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Ubuntu changes automatic screen orientation on login
On a 2-in-1 laptop (HP Spectre x360) running Ubuntu 20.04 the default screen orientation is left upon user login. Other users are unaffected, and when rotation is unlocked the display functions as ...
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Display on second monitor misbehaves in portrait mode with Nvidia GTX GPU on Ubuntu 20.04
After upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04 today I found that my monitor configuration is not working properly any more. I have a 4k primary display in landscape and a 1080p secondary display in portrait (right) ...
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Running Kubuntu on 2 -1 tablet (Dell Latitude 5175)
After a long uphill battle to get linux running on my tablet I finally decided to write here.
I am trying to run a stable linux distro on my 2 in 1 tablet with touchscreen functionality and all the ...
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Laptop Screen Rotation Dell Inspiron 7348 / 7359 Kubuntu
I have a Dell Inspiron 7348 / 7359 that folds into a tablet mode. This works really well and the screen rotates etc in ubuntu. In kubuntu it does not. Any way to set this up? Thanks
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How to configure the screen rotation on Ubuntu
I have purchased a Teclast f5 and I have installed an Ubuntu 18LTS. Everything works really fine except the screen rotation. In my case, it is working the opposite as expected. I mean, when the laptop ...
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Screen rotates 90 degrees after shutting lid
I've recently installed Ubuntu 19.10 on my laptop and come across the issue where whenever I close the lid of my laptop to put it to sleep, when I re-open the laptop the screen is rotated 90 degrees ...
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There's no orientation setting in the display settings
Ubuntu Version: 18.04
platform: tablet
I can use "xrandr --output DSI-1 --rotate right" to rotate the display.
But there is NO orientation options in the Settings --> Devices --> Display.
Could I ...
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Screen Rotates After Closing Laptop Lid HP, Ubuntu 18.04.02
I have checked other posts about randomly rotating screens, and screens that rotate after sleep. I have tried the following to no avail:
1. Lock Screen Rotation
Problem persists.
2. Disable Gnome ...
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Change resolution/rotation without display server
I have a Galaxy Book 10.6" tablet with a 1920*1280 display, but for whatever reason Ubuntu (and every other Linux based OS) thinks it's 1280*1920. How can I change the resolution without simply ...
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How to rotate built in display in 18.04 (without losing external monitor !)
I have a similar setup to the one described here, laptop in tent mode with external monitor on HDMI. It is no longer possible to specify the built-in display orientation via the GUI (why ?) and when I ...
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Lenovo MIIX 300-10iby Touchscreen rotation, and charging issue
I am new in Linux environment, but i know some stuff.
I've just installed Ubuntu 19.04 Desktop on my Lenovo MIIX 300 and it got issues with screen rotation.
I've removed iio-sensor-proxy and to rotate ...
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Trying to install Ubuntu on my laptop, screen gets stuck in vertical mode, and wont rotate out of it
So im trying to install Ubuntu on a laptop of mine, i had been running Debain, and my GF will now be using it. So i wanted something i little more user friendly for here. However, for some reason when ...
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Wrong orientation on Tablet running ubuntu 18.10
Have ubuntu 18.10 installed on a nuvision TM800W610L tablet. The accelerometer seems to be working as the desktop rotates when I rotate the tablet but the orientation is off. Holding it upright (...
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How do I rotate the screen by X degrees?
I am creating an interactive project which runs on lubuntu (with nvidia drivers) and where the screen is tilted by 42 degrees. I would like to counteract this rotation in the viewport by rotating it ...
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Video Play Rotate Automatically
When I play a video(both in video player and browsers) on my ubuntu 18.04 TLS it runs smoothly but after a while the display reverse to it automatically.It happens each and every time I play videos.It ...
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Can Ubuntu dock be at the bottom when screen is rotated? [duplicate]
I have a touchy laptop, and with Ubuntu 18, the screen rotates with it.
Superb. However, normally the dock is at the left (which for screen real estate is optimal), but when the screen is in portrait ...
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Two-finger-scroll won't autorotate (18.10)
I have a Dell Precision 5530 2-in-1 and with Ubuntu 18.10 everything works ridiculously well.
There is one (admittedly rather minor) issue though.
When I go into tablet mode the two-finger-scroll won'...
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Thinkpad rotation scripts
I've got a Thinkpad X230 tablet on which I installed Ubuntu Mate 16.04, and I've used Martin Ueding's thinkpad-script PPA to get the screen to rotate. This has worked for all upgrades. And then I ...
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Screen will not rotate on ubuntu 18.04
I'm running ubuntu on a Intel atom powered cheapo 2in1 tablet (RCA Cambio model w101sa23t2), and after a lot of time everything seems okay except for one huge issue. The screen is rotated 90 degrees ...
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Ubuntu displays out of rotation on wake from sleep
OS: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Problem: I have a triple monitor setup and on wake from sleep, the orientation goes crazy.
All displays are out of rotation. i.e they're back at horizontal, when their normal ...
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Missing options in settings screens but they appear when searched for
Recently installed 18.10 on my HP Elitebook 840 G2 after windows decided to stop logging me in (nothing of value lost) Two teething issues
Despite the Fingerprint reader being detected in lsusb I ...
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Set up autorotate of screen in 18.10 with Wayland
I tried following this guide which apparently worked back in 2016. Is there an equivalent method that might work with Wayland? I saw somewhere that Gnome now supports it but my display settings only ...
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What script is responsible for auto-screen rotation in Ubuntu 18.04?
Screen rotation works well, but on my ASUS Transformer Mini, the pen input is rotated incorrectly. I discovered the correct command to rotate it, but I first need to know what script is called to ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 - Screen goes black when rotated to portrait mode
I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 on a Lenovo X1 Yoga with touchscreen capabilities. When I rotate the laptop to portrait mode, the screen just goes black. When I rotate back to landscape, the screen returns....
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How save Xrandr orientation change settings [duplicate]
Hello When I turn on my Lap Top the screen rotated 90 deg. (Both of login screen and desktop screen). So I use this code to rotate screen
xrandr -o normal
but the first problem is: this code is just ...
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Screen upside down after upgrade to 18.04.01
After upgrading to 18.04 my screen suddendly switched upside down, since my Laptop apparently has a rotation sensor. I temporarily fixed it with xrandr -o normal and disabled the gnome rotation sensor,...
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Screen rotation on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Lenovo Ideapad Miix 510
I recently upgraded my Lenovo Ideapad Miix 510 from 16.04 to 18.04 and was pleasantly surprised to find that my previously nonfunctional screen autorotation started working with the upgrade. ...
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Screen rotation issue 18.04 desktop version
Because I've rotated my curved screen to portrait-style, I've changed the settings at All Settings/Display/Rotation (turn left). But every time my screen goes on standby, after I wake it up, it's ...
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Ubuntu 18.04: Changing dock location on monitor rotation
In my current configuration, I have a dock (which shows application icons) on the left of the screen. I was wondering whether it is possible to move the dock to the top when the monitor is rotated 90 ...
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18.04 Ubuntu with Wayland, screen will not display in portrait
I've just updated to 18.04 from 16.10. When using Ubuntu with Wayland, if I rotate the view of either of my two monitors in the display settings, the rotated monitor will not receive a signal.
When ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 Screen rotates on HP compaq 9420 when laptop is moved or bumped
HP Compaq 9420 17" screen with Intel 2.16 core 2 duo 4gb ddr2 nvida graphics. How do I make the screen Stationary-Fixed?
I Installed Ubuntu 18.04 now at the slightest touch or bump the screen rotates....
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HP Envy x360 Ryzen 5 - status of known issues
There have been numerous issues getting the Envy x360 with Ryzen 5 to cooperate with Ubuntu. Several issues have been solved, and several remain.
I am currently running Ubuntu 18.04 with Linux kernel ...
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Ubuntu keeps randomly rotates screen
I recently installed the latest ubuntu 18 and randomly the screen just rotates, i usually have to CTRL+ALT+T to bring up the terminal and do xrandr -o normal to get back the screen display correctly. ...
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How to rotate screen in Ubuntu using terminal?
Recently I booted Ubuntu 18.04 Live USB and I faced annoying problem. Screen was rotated and there was no rotate options in settings. I had to search not so obvious places in Internet, so I share this ...
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Laptop Screen Rotates Automatically
Currently i am using Ubuntu 18.04 and Whenever i turn on my laptop after loading Ubuntu icon screen the screen rotates on User login screen even when laptop is not rotated. And it shows two cursors ...
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How to turn off screen rotation in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS?
In Ubuntu 17.04 there was 'Rotation' menu in Display tab. But now in new version of Ubuntu, there's still a Display tab but no more rotation menu. Now I can't turn that off again since I upgraded to ...
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Display and cursor are out of sync on Ubuntu 18.04 tablet
So I just upgraded my tablet from 16.04 to 18.04, and now the display has gone completely out of whack. At the login screen, my display is inverted, but the cursor and touchscreen are both completely ...
