Solaris 10 with Gnome: How do I rotate my screen?

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Anyone know how to rotate your screen from landscape to portrait in Solaris 10 with Gnome?

Update: Have looked in:

Launch -> Preferences -> System preferences (has nothing relevant)

Launch -> Preferences -> Desktop preferences

  • The most promising thing here is Display but I am 90% sure that there is nothing in there. Inside Display there is:
    • Background
    • Fonts
    • Menus and Tool bars
    • Screen Resolution (just has resolution and refresh rate)
    • Screen Saver
    • Theme
    • Window behavior
  • There are a number of other menus but I have dug through most of them and not found anything useful

sixtyfootersdude

Posted 2010-01-28T13:50:21.670

Reputation: 6 399

What graphiccard do you have? – Bobby – 2010-01-28T14:14:34.050

@Bobby: Sorry new to unix, how would I find that out? – sixtyfootersdude – 2010-01-28T19:16:03.403

Weird.. I had one answer but it has disappeared... It was not correct but.. is that normal? – sixtyfootersdude – 2010-01-29T14:41:34.967

Answers

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The Display UI is indeed the place to look but it hasn't yet that choice available with your Solaris release. On OpenSolaris there is a Rotation chooser with Normal and Right, Left and Inverted, when supported by the hardware.

The equivalent CLI commands are xrandr -o right, xrandr -o normal

The NVidia driver documentation states a GEForce 2 or better card is required. No idea about other vendors.

jlliagre

Posted 2010-01-28T13:50:21.670

Reputation: 12 469

bash: xrandr: command not found. Maybe it is not in my path. Where should I look for it? Thanks! – sixtyfootersdude – 2010-02-04T14:43:43.633

The command is there /usr/X11/bin/xrandr and part of the SUNWxorg-client-programs package. – jlliagre – 2010-02-04T15:20:24.517

Hey, I could not get that working, so I created a new thread: http://superuser.com/questions/121489/rotate-screen-using-xrandr-on-solaris-10

– sixtyfootersdude – 2010-03-18T19:01:16.063

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