> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 12:55:41AM +0200, Stéphane Aulery wrote: .. >> And if I use a monitor in portrait orientation ? > > I have been using a monitor in portrait for many years and was never > bothered by the console being the wrong way (X is rotated of course). > > In a rare situation where I need the console, I can make use of the > laws of physics and turn the monitor upright with my hands and arms. > This approach seems to work very reliably. I've never seen it fail.
If it's a laptop, the angle between the laptop (correctly oriented) and the screen (oriented 90 degrees away from you) is 90 degrees, and you would need to tilt your head 90 degrees instead (as the screen can't be tilted), or tilt your hands 90 degrees while tilting the laptop 90 degrees too, or carry an external keyboard with you, in which case the laptop but not me would need to be tilted. In a world where such weird laptop manufacturers exist, OpenBSD having framebuffer rotation would fix the whole setup. But doing it with X is cool too of course, at the very least for now.
