Just as in windows you have the option to rotate your screen into any direction in Linux, too. While in windows there are some shortcut keys, a key combination is not configured in Linux by default. But you can do the same thing using some terminal commands.
In next post I'll show you how you can create a bash script to do the same thing in an easy way.
Find the Screen label
Before rotating a screen, first thing that you need to do is to identify how the screen has been labeled that you want to rotate.xrandr -q is the command that can provide that info. Running on my system gives below output:Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3286 x 1080, maximum 32767 x 32767 eDP1 connected 1366x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 193mm 1366x768 60.1*+ 1360x768 59.8 60.0 1024x768 60.0 800x600 60.3 56.2 640x480 59.9 DP1 connected primary 1920x1080+1366+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 521mm x 293mm 1920x1080 60.0*+ 1680x1050 60.0 1600x900 60.0 1280x1024 75.0 60.0 1440x900 59.9 1280x800 59.8 1152x864 75.0 1280x720 60.0 1024x768 75.1 70.1 60.0 832x624 74.6 800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2 640x480 75.0 72.8 66.7 60.0 720x400 70.1 HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) HDMI2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) VIRTUAL1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)I have two monitors. First one is labeled as
eDP1 and second one is labeled as DP1.Rotate Monitor
Determine the monitor that you want to rotate here from previous command output. Next, we want to rotate it around. For that, we use one of the following commands:xrandr --output eDP1 --rotate right xrandr --output eDP1 --rotate left xrandr --output eDP1 --rotate inverted xrandr --output eDP1 --rotate normalReplace
eDP1 with your monitor label in above commands and you'll be able to rotate the screen.
