Topic: It is possible to rotate the terminal display in SME?

[LANMonkey]

I use a KVM on my LAN and I would like to attach the KVM to one of my multiple monitors that I use on my usual client desktop.   This particular display is rotated to portrait rather that landscape so that I can see more scrolling text at a glance.

Is it possible to rotate the basic command line terminal display in Linux and SME especially to get into SME from the command line with a terminal rotated 90 degrees?

[janet]

LANMonkey

Assuming you are using a rotatable display, I thought the display re-oriented input so it displays correctly, whichever way the display is oriented.

I think the question you are asking is whether the console command line "window" can be displayed as a portrait shape rather than landscape shape by default.

I'm not sure about that, sme being Linux most things can be achieved with effort.

More simply though, you can run a putty ssh session & resize/reshape the window to be portrait in shape.

Have you ttied, what happens ?

[LANMonkey]

OK, I guess my screen is not "rotatable" from the stand.  It is only rotatable like any screen is rotatable by way of the VESA mount and I correct in Windows XP by way of the display settings.

I think the question you are asking is whether the console command line "window" can be displayed as a portrait shape rather than landscape shape by default.

I'm not sure about that, sme being Linux most things can be achieved with effort.

More simply though, you can run a putty ssh session & resize/reshape the window to be portrait in shape.

Have you ttied, what happens

Of course when I use putty, I am using a GUI client and that is not a problem.  I am talking about the monitor and keyboard connected directly to the computer hosting SME Server.  I would like to rotate that display 90 degrees and correct the command line interface so that it remains correctly oriented with the rotated display.

I have heard of something called "fbcon".  See this article on this application in Ubuntu here:

http://www.happyassassin.net/2011/06/28/tip-o-the-day-console-rotation/

[janet]

LANMonkey

After a quick search maybe this from
http://centoshelp.org/resources/commands/linux-system-commands/

although xrandr gives "command not found" on sme8

xrandr – Xrandr is used to set the screen size, orientation and/or reflection. The -s option is a small integer index used to specify which size the screen should be set to. To find out what sizes are available, use the -q option, which reports the sizes available, the current rotation, and the possible rotations and reflections. The default size is the first size specified in the list. The -o option is used to specify the orientation of the screen, and can be one of “normal inverted left right 0 1 2 3″. The -x option instructs the server to reflect the screen on the X axis. The -y option instructs the server to reflect the screen on the Y axis. Reflection is applied after rotation. The -help option prints out a usage summary. The –verbose option tells you what xrandr is doing, selects for events, and tells you when events are received to enable debugging.
example: user1@foo ]$ xrandr –verbose (this command shows the current reflection, rotation and other information.)


You could try installing it, but there maybe other implications & security issues to fully consider the ramifications of.

yum install xrandr
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[janet]

LANMonkey

Did you get anywhere with this ?
Did you try installing & using xrandr ?

[LANMonkey]

janet, this is still on my agenda.  There are a few things I need to take care of first.  This is all part of an ongoing project.  I have to be sure that my MySQL issues are resolved first.