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Martin Ueding
Asked: 2012-07-04 05:13:25 +0800 CST

Rotate only one screen

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If I have only the internal monitor (LVDS1) with an xrandr -o left command. Now I want to attach a second monitor, say to HDMI1. Then I'd like to rotate only the internal monitor, but not the external one. I tried the following (with no external attached though, since I am mobile currently), but that does not do anything:

xrandr --output LVDS1 -o left

How can I rotate only one monitor?

I do need some command line, since I want to put this into a script.

xrandr

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The trick is to use the newer --rotate instead of -o which needs to be used with a --output argument:

    xrandr --output "$internal" --rotate "$xrandr_rotation"

    Examples

    xrandr --output LVDS1 --rotate left
xrandr --output LVDS1 --rotate right
xrandr --output LVDS1 --rotate normal
xrandr --output LVDS1 --rotate inverted
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  2. If you open the System Settings and choose Displays there, you can select the monitor to rotate, and choose which rotation to use, for each individual monitor you wish to rotate.

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