rotating the screen

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi Edscott,

Just for the record, dunno if that's the same:

http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=941

HTH
Olivier.

On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 20:51 +0200, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> 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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