i'm bored to tears and i have nothing to do so i went into system prefs. and i rotated the picture 180 degrees! it's very very pointless but i just wanted to share it.
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This is awesome...! (rotating display)
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lamina said:
Whoops, misread.
I think if you hold down option+command while clicking Displays prefpane, it'll show up. Or, something along those lines. It's not recommended though, if your display can't support it, then you're gonna have a tough time switching it back.
FYI to those of you frantically searching for that option...you can't rotate it if you're on a laptop...
well you used to be able to. i remember i did, and had to use my iBook at a weird angle for a few minutes trying to get back to System Preferences to change it backWildCowboy said:
I think only certain graphics cards supported it anyway.
janey said:well you used to be able to. i remember i did, and had to use my iBook at a weird angle for a few minutes trying to get back to System Preferences to change it back
I think only certain graphics cards supported it anyway.
I found a thread over at Arstechnica talking about this...it's not entirely clear what combinations of graphics card/monitors support this. My old iBook Dual USB doesn't. IIRC, I don't think my PB does either, but I can't check for sure until it comes back from the shop.
janey said:well you used to be able to. i remember i did, and had to use my iBook at a weird angle for a few minutes trying to get back to System Preferences to change it back
I think only certain graphics cards supported it anyway.
Hmm... I just tried to rotate the screen on my 12" 1.33GHz iBook G4 and it did not give me the option to do so.
****. I tried it on my mac mini and ACD...man.
It didn't work. Unfortunately enough, nothing I could find on google would reverse it.
So first I got the idea of using VNC to fix it, but I never remembered to enable that in sharing prefpane.
So I got the brilliant idea of using Voiceover to change the setting, which took all of like 2 minutes. Except, "Standard" was checked, and it still wasn't showing anything. A reboot fixed it though Wheeee
(not saying a reboot will indeed fix it, but I think somehow the voiceover thing I did kicked into effect when I rebooted or something, I don't know)
(voiceover being the screenreader built into OS X)
It didn't work. Unfortunately enough, nothing I could find on google would reverse it.
So first I got the idea of using VNC to fix it, but I never remembered to enable that in sharing prefpane.
So I got the brilliant idea of using Voiceover to change the setting, which took all of like 2 minutes. Except, "Standard" was checked, and it still wasn't showing anything. A reboot fixed it though
Wheeee(not saying a reboot will indeed fix it, but I think somehow the voiceover thing I did kicked into effect when I rebooted or something, I don't know)
(voiceover being the screenreader built into OS X)
janey said:
This changed with a dot upgrade... my iBook used to be able to do this, and now it cannot anymore....
janey said:
Whoops, misread.
I think if you hold down option+command while clicking Displays prefpane, it'll show up. Or, something along those lines. It's not recommended though, if your display can't support it, then you're gonna have a tough time switching it back.
On an Intel Mac Mini this option comes up by default BTW. I was trying it on my Dell 2005FPW over the weekend. Looks crazy tall with the widescreen rotated!
Can Tooo
i have a 1.5 ghz pb g4 and i can do it jsut fine. ITs kinda funny you can actually hold your powerbookl like a book now if only i could learn to type vertically...WildCowboy said:
Rotating display
I seem to recall there having been a script written to do something similar to this. It was specifically for the powerbooks with a motion sensor. As you rotated the 'book, the screen would rotate so that you were always looking at it "right side up".
Anyone else remember this?
I seem to recall there having been a script written to do something similar to this. It was specifically for the powerbooks with a motion sensor. As you rotated the 'book, the screen would rotate so that you were always looking at it "right side up".
Anyone else remember this?
When I still had my Dell 2005FPW (had to sell it) hooked up to my PowerBook, I tried it a couple times, since the Dell can rotate on its base to be portrait. Talk about a long, skinny display. It was weird. I put it back.