How to rotate the screen automatically on boot-up?

tsuraan tsuraan at gmail.com
Fri Sep 24 08:51:09 PDT 2010


> Hi, all:
>         I am using a laptop with Ubuntu Lucid Lynx and nVIDIA 8300. There is
> one screen associated with the laptop itself, and I have another screen
> connected to the laptop. I want to rotate it 90 degrees on bootup. I know
> that "xrandr -o left" do the work. But put the command line into the
> "Gnome->Preferences->Sessions->Startup programs" failed to rotate the screen
> (I even specify --screen 1 parameter). Anybody tell me how do work it out?

Maybe this is a dumb idea, but did you try putting that command into a
shell script, making the script executable, and giving gnome startup
the path to your script?  My thought is that sometimes those launcher
programs don't honor flags that you pass to the program you're trying
to run.



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