How to pivot screen orientation in Linux Mint 11

[AMD_RULES]

See sig for system specs. The monitor I have can be physically rotated to portrait mode, but under the monitor settings in preferences, there is nothing but 'normal' listed. I'm fairly new to linux and tried something I found online called xrandr in the terminal, but it says something about the gama...

How do I accomplish this? Thanks!

 

[lilfiend]

i googled some and found grandr, sounds like your using xfce and this is for gnome?

what gui are you running?

 

[AMD_RULES]

Whatever the default gui is that is what I'm using...

 

[JosiahBradley]

Open up a terminal and type xrandr. It will list a bunch of lines with one of them being "XXXX connected" then the resolution of your screen.

The XXXX is the name of the output.
Rotation can be one of 'normal', 'left', 'right' or 'inverted'.

Then run this command:

xrandr --output XXXX --rotate Rotation (one of the above)

Hope this helps.

 

[/dev/null]

install "arandr" for a more friendly version of xrandr