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Hi,
I've got a ViewSonic VP930B 19" LCD screen which I've had for a year or so now. The screen can pivot 90 degrees to portrait orientation.
Viewsonic have a neat utility for Windows (only!) that automatically detects when you pivot the screen, and adjusts your display settings straight away.
I haven't found anything equivalent for Linux yet. Does anybody know of a programme for this or can you give me any ideas where to start?
Thanks
Francis
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XRandR should be able to rotate the display if your video hardware supports it under linux. Unfortunately, I dont' know how to do it automatically.
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Theoretically it should be possible if the rotation generates an event that kernel and/or acpid could see.
I know there's a trick like this (acpid receives a special event and runs xrandr command) described somewhere in the thinkpad laptops docs (just ask google) but it could be just the "laptop thing" (treated like a special laptop button events) not available for monitors.
AFAIK standard tools can't recognize the rotation (at least KDE's krandrtray and gnome randr applet) - you can only choose resolutions from the menu.
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Hmm. thanks for the tips.
I guess the rotation must generate some type of signal because the Windows utility picks it up.
I'll look at the standard tools mentioned as a way of manually rotating it in the meantime.
Cheers
Francis
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