[qtopia]how to rotate screen from the shell?

Joel Newkirk freerunner at newkirk.us
Thu Oct 2 17:01:37 CEST 2008


On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 16:01:32 +0200, "Thomas Bertani" <sylar1991 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi, I need to rotate the screen from the shell with a command. Anybody
> knows
> how to do that?
> 
> Thanks in advance

Google 'x11 rotate' or 'linux screen rotate' and you'll quickly find the
command 'xrandr'.  Resolution and Rotation controls.

xrandr -o 0  - 'normal'
xrandr -o 1  - 'right'
xrandr -o 2  - 'inverted'
xrandr -o 3  - 'left'

-o for 'orientation', you can use the numbers or the string 'normal' etc.

j






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