display rotation

Feb 15, 2008 16:53

After a lively discussion about landscape vs. portrait orientation, I decided to try rotating my LCDs to portrait. I'm using the nvidia binary driver in linux. I had to add 'Option "RandRRotation" "on"' to my video card device section in xorg.conf, and then restart my X server. After that, I could rotate with either the command line 'xrandr -o { ( Read more... )

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One of each ext_90416 March 19 2008, 03:07:18 UTC
Seems I'm a little late to the party on this post, but I always liked having one monitor in portrait and one in landscape. Things like email, I keep on the landscape monitor because I think wider paragraphs are easier to read.

Code is line and block-oriented, rather than paragraph oriented, so I always found it easier to use that on the portrait screen. It's easier to see the big picture that way.

It's definitely not one-orientation-fits-all.

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maximumbawb March 19 2008, 07:05:14 UTC
Ah, but if your monitors are wide "enough" in portrait, you can handle both types of data!

But there are certainly times when landscape is better. A perfect example of this is widescreen movies. That's why it's nice to have the option to do both.

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True ext_90416 March 21 2008, 01:39:24 UTC
That's true. I was always stuck on standard 1280x1024 LCDs, which I never thought were wide enough for reading email. It always seemed "squished", and made the text run off the bottom so I had to scroll. (Life is tough for IT guys, eh? :-) )

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