On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 9:49 PM Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > > I use rotated monitors ("tallscreens") for my computers. > > How do I configure lightdm for a screen rotated right? > > ---- > > I've learned how to rotate the framebuffers for grub boot > and my mostly working Mate-Ubuntu 20.04 desktop displays. > > However, the login screen for mate-ubuntu uses the lightdm > display manager, and I haven't yet figured out how to > rotate the screen for that login page. > > It's not a huge problem - all I need to do (for now) is > remember that the mouse moves sideways and jostle the > pointer into the password box, but at some point I will > add other users to the console login menu, or forget > how to "think sideways". > > Frankly, I would prefer to log in from the same text > screen as boot, THEN have a LOGIN SCRIPT fire up Mate > instead of a GUI greeter, but I don't know how to make > that happen either. >
Since the switch over to systemd the process is much different, but here are the instructions for setting things up to boot into console mode https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2020/05/boot-ubuntu-20-04-command-console/ and once in console mode here are the instructions for starting the gui https://linuxconfig.org/start-gui-from-command-line-on-ubuntu-20-04-focal-fossa I have not tested those steps, but they look like the right approach. Bill
