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I have never heard of this before, & now its happened to me.

I cannot figure out how to rotate it back, so I've rotated the actual screen. Hey, its better than tilting my head sideways.

I will of course Googling if I can figure out what in hell to call it, that is.

All contributions that actually help cheerfully accepted.

Yes, of course I logged out & in again. All the way.

The "screen startup" stuff came up with the right orientation, but not, sigh, my actual stuff I have to use to do work.

ghostjmf wrote:I have never heard of this before, & now its happened to me.

I cannot figure out how to rotate it back, so I've rotated the actual screen. Hey, its better than tilting my head sideways.

I will of course Googling if I can figure out what in hell to call it, that is.

All contributions that actually help cheerfully accepted.

Yes, of course I logged out & in again. All the way.

The "screen startup" stuff came up with the right orientation, but not, sigh, my actual stuff I have to use to do work.

My cat has caused my screen to be rotated 180 degrees...not sure if that fix will fix yours, but it was ctrl+alt+left or right arrow (not sure if both work or if it needed to be one vs the other, I can't remember, so try both if one doesn't work).

you may be looking for a "display manager" a utility that rotates your monitor

sunflower wrote:

ghostjmf wrote:I have never heard of this before, & now its happened to me.

I cannot figure out how to rotate it back, so I've rotated the actual screen. Hey, its better than tilting my head sideways.

I will of course Googling if I can figure out what in hell to call it, that is.

All contributions that actually help cheerfully accepted.

Yes, of course I logged out & in again. All the way.

The "screen startup" stuff came up with the right orientation, but not, sigh, my actual stuff I have to use to do work.

My cat has caused my screen to be rotated 180 degrees...not sure if that fix will fix yours, but it was ctrl+alt+left or right arrow (not sure if both work or if it needed to be one vs the other, I can't remember, so try both if one doesn't work).

Or possibly ctrl+alt+ up or down arrow, I just tried that on my laptop and was able to rotate 90 degrees with all, left, right, up, down...it depends which way you ended up being rotated, which arrow key will fix it to be normal.

It is not part of "settings" that you get to by right-clicking on the desktop.

At least not on my desktop.

Thank you thank you. It was in fact ctr-alt-arrow.

Which arrow it was, either right or left, I am not going to tempt fate to try again.

I know it isn't the "up" arrow, because that turned everthing upside down.

If you ever really want to mess with someone's mind when their back is turned from the screen for a tiny second, this would be the way.

ghostjmf wrote:Thank you thank you. It was in fact ctr-alt-arrow.

Which arrow it was, either right or left, I am not going to tempt fate to try again.

I know it isn't the "up" arrow, because that turned everthing upside down.

If you ever really want to mess with someone's mind when their back is turned from the screen for a tiny second, this would be the way.

Ctrl + Alt + UpArrow is supposed to re-orient the screen to normal. It sounds as if you have another setting changed, which you have now overridden via 2 Ctrl + Alt + LeftArrow or 2 Ctrl + Alt + RightArrow operations. Whatever works.

Everything is not really "back to normal", strictly speaking, because I am having to resize all my windows for optimum viewing whatever. But at least I don't have to tilt my head (or the screen) anymore.

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ghostjmf wrote:Thank you thank you. It was in fact ctr-alt-arrow.

Which arrow it was, either right or left, I am not going to tempt fate to try again.

I know it isn't the "up" arrow, because that turned everthing upside down.

If you ever really want to mess with someone's mind when their back is turned from the screen for a tiny second, this would be the way.

Glad it helped...I was amazed after I found the fix (I had to use my blackberry to look it up on google the first time) that my cat could have managed to hit those keys in the first place...perfect paw placement to mess everything up!!!

sunflower wrote:

ghostjmf wrote:Thank you thank you. It was in fact ctr-alt-arrow.

Which arrow it was, either right or left, I am not going to tempt fate to try again.

I know it isn't the "up" arrow, because that turned everthing upside down.

If you ever really want to mess with someone's mind when their back is turned from the screen for a tiny second, this would be the way.

Glad it helped...I was amazed after I found the fix (I had to use my blackberry to look it up on google the first time) that my cat could have managed to hit those keys in the first place...perfect paw placement to mess everything up!!!

Not all cats are as dumb and uncoordinated as Spilly is.....

sunflower wrote:

ghostjmf wrote:I have never heard of this before, & now its happened to me.

I cannot figure out how to rotate it back, so I've rotated the actual screen. Hey, its better than tilting my head sideways.

I will of course Googling if I can figure out what in hell to call it, that is.

All contributions that actually help cheerfully accepted.

Yes, of course I logged out & in again. All the way.

The "screen startup" stuff came up with the right orientation, but not, sigh, my actual stuff I have to use to do work.

My cat has caused my screen to be rotated 180 degrees...not sure if that fix will fix yours, but it was ctrl+alt+left or right arrow (not sure if both work or if it needed to be one vs the other, I can't remember, so try both if one doesn't work).

Just the other day I was asked to help solve the exact same problem on a friend's laptop, also triggered by a cat!

(not that surprising, I suppose, given the layout of the ctrl+alt+arror keys)

It's your computer telling you to lie down.