xrandr options
After spending most of the morning thinking about the ex-President Ford and wondering if the odd conversation I had had in the lavoratory of the San Jose Airport had been influenced by the fact that I was drinking tap water from a previously purchased and recycled (and therefore mislabeled) water bottle -- I gave it up and got back to the reason I had put the little toys/ornaments on top of my computer monitor. That reason being, because it seems like the only reason things work on my computer is to interrupt my ideas and my plans.
I mentioned this on #gimp and Tom Rathborne (Tommer) was available to help....
The irc log in the screenshots shows a few things. Tommer helping me, for one thing. Jakub Steiner doing what he does best (which is getting into the interesting screenshots). Instructions for how to use this awesome software to rotate my display the same way I can rotate the screen which is displaying it.
carol@bread:~$ xrandr -q SZ: Pixels Physical Refresh *0 1680 x 1050 ( 427mm x 267mm ) *60 1 1280 x 1024 ( 427mm x 267mm ) 75 2 1024 x 768 ( 427mm x 267mm ) 75 3 800 x 600 ( 427mm x 267mm ) 75 4 640 x 480 ( 427mm x 267mm ) 75 Current rotation - normal Current reflection - none Rotations possible - normal left inverted right Reflections possible - none carol@bread:~$
Credit for the "what about that guy" joke goes to Rich Hall, from the Saturday Night Live years he was on. He used to contribute to their news show by showing photographs of famous occasions with himself pasted into them. Jimmac did not invent this. Nor did David Letterman when he would point out weird people in photographs on his show in the nineties.
Credit for making the irc moment for Jakub to paste himself into goes to me and Tommer. Credit for remembering who did this in my life (or on my television set) goes to me as well. Credit for the screenshot that is not inverted goes to whoever wrote xwd to do that and Tommer and yosh for finding such a great computer and allowing me so much more indebt-ness to him so that I do not have to sit here alone in Sillycon Valley with the hand-me-down I brought with me when I came.
Credit for misspelling personnel goes to me, Carol Spears.