rotating the screen

Olivier Fourdan fourdan at xfce.org
Mon Jun 13 20:51:02 CEST 2005


Hi Edscott

Try removing $HOME/.config/xfce4/mcs_settings/display.xml and restart
your session.

There might be some issues related to the size and rotation (either in
X.org or on the driver, don't know exactly)

HTH
Olivier.

On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 22:03 -0500, Edscott Wilson Garcia wrote:
> Recently nvidia updated their linux driver so that you can rotate your
> screen with "xrandr -o right". This feature is especially nice for those
> lcd screens you can rotate and place in portrait position and thus see a
> page of text like a "page of text". This is already posible in the open
> source "nv" driver, but much slower.
> 
> The problem with the "nvidia" driver is that once you start X, xfwm4,
> xfce4-panel, xfdesktop4 don't work quite right. Xfwm4, for example, will
> maximize window to 768x768 instead of 768x1024. Xfce4-panel will use a
> width of 1024 (placing part of it off screen). 
> 
> Killing and restarting applications does not seem to help. Does anyone
> know of how to use the nvidia driver instead of the nv driver with a
> rotated screen under xfce4? Or maybe the rotate feature is just too
> buggy in nvidia driver?
> 
> 
> TIA for any suggestions or pointers.
> 





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