Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 365951
screen rotation with xrandr does not work correctly when desktop-effects are enabled
Last modified: 2008-12-01 13:02:28 EST
When desktop-effects are not enabled, screen rotation[1] works as expected- screen properly resizes from 1024x768 to 768x1024, and panel and so on resize properly. When desktop-effects are enabled, things go bad, apparently unpredictably- sometimes it seems to resize correctly, but the screen then stops refreshing; other times it does not resize correctly (apparently becoming 768x768), etc. This is problematic for tablet PC users, though of course there is an obvious workaround (turn off desktop effects.) [1] using the following command: /usr/bin/xrandr --output LVDS --rotate [right|normal]
hardware information will be (hopefully) in bug 366211
Really a compiz bug first. Definitely not an XFree86 bug though.
*** Bug 428283 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Note that the duplicate bug has extensive X logs, confs, etc., and bug 366211 has all of the same information from my HW.
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Not sure when this got fixed (wasn't F9) but now seems to work in F10! Thanks!