I’m using EndeavourOS with KDE.

The display is correctly oriented when logged in but it doesn’t rotate correctly when I’m logged out.

EDIT: corrected the post. This happens when logged out, locking the screen has it displayed correctly.

    • @narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee
      5•10 months ago

      Oh, I didn’t know that button existed. Great! Even though I just tried it and it didn’t apply my rotation settings correctly.

      • frozen
        2•10 months ago

        This is the system settings application for the KDE desktop environment.

          • frozen
            4•10 months ago

            Correct. Unfortunately, it’s something that each desktop environment or window manager has to implement themselves. But all the button is doing is moving some config files around, so you can probably do some digging to figure out what it’s copying to where.

            • Arkhive (they/she)
              1•10 months ago

              Yeah, I’ve largely figured out how to change all these settings from configs for myself, just always on the lookout for a nice gui. I’m slowly working to make a Linux experience I can install for my relatives that makes the transition from crapware Windows relatively painless.

          • @Astongt615@lemmy.one
            3•10 months ago

            XDG_SESSION_THEME=KDE got my hyprland config to work on everything except the cursor (other than in Firefox/steam for some reason). Took me way too long to find the old reddit post that had this tip, so I hope it helps!

      • @narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee
        16•10 months ago

        Yeah that difference in configuration definitely makes it so much better, it completely outweighs the fact that Wayland does proper multi-monitor VRR, fractional scaling, HDR and much more.

        • @uhN0id@programming.devEnglish
          4•10 months ago

          Not OP comment but I had no idea Wayland supported all of that. Thanks for sharing! I really need to leave my Linux bubble more often.

          • @doona@aussie.zone
            3•10 months ago

            And now you know why it’s so funny to read people on the internet exclaiming that X11 is so much better despite its lack of development…

          • frozen
            17•10 months ago

            Literally yes. And you don’t even need to know the exact pixel resolution of the TV.

            Edit: Here are the problems with you “Wayland isn’t good enough” people.

            First, you don’t use Wayland, so you don’t even know if it’s fixed whatever weird issue you encountered with it before or if it supports a niche use case, for example.

            Second, Wayland won’t get good enough for you until you start using it and reporting bugs. You think X11 was a bed of roses when it first started? Or do you think they bumped the version number 11 times for fun?

            • @doona@aussie.zone
              6•10 months ago

              First, you don’t use Wayland, so you don’t even know if it’s fixed whatever weird issue you encountered with it before or if it supports a niche use case, for example.

              Bingo. So many complaints I’ve seen about Wayland have been from Nvidia users who tried it three years ago when the driver support was beyond fucked. I get Linux development moves slow sometimes but holy shit…

      • Björn Tantau
        10•10 months ago

        Uh, all that button does is write your configuration to the sddm config. Of course you can also do that manually.

      • @Nibodhika@lemmy.world
        10•10 months ago

        You can’t be this stupid, Wayland also uses a config file, you just have a GUI button to copy the configs from inside your session to the login screen. Or do you think the button recompiles the login screen with a different configuration?

      • @LeFantome@programming.dev
        6•10 months ago

        In Wayland, the compositor is the window server ( the equivalent of Xserver ). What you are looking for has to be a feature of the compositor and it is.

        As others have said below, wlroots based compositors offer wlr-randr. There is also gnome-randr. For KDE, there is Kscreen-doctor. For X ( the window server being used by SDDM here ), there is xramdr.

        Now, some people may see it as a problem that we have multiple Wayland implementations. I am mostly not fighting that battle. I will say that I hope these are not the same people that winge about systemd though and push for alternate init systems. I hope nobody that thinks MUSL is cool Is clinging to X11.

        I would prefer that there was a common configuration standard for this stuff on Wayland. It will probably come eventually. Maybe as part of the freedesktop.org stuff.

        Generally, I believe the Linux ecosystem has been stronger in areas where there has been competition between implementations ( even compilers ). I hope that Wayland will be one of those areas. As the core problems get fixed, the pace of innovation will increase. I believe we are already seeing that. There are more examples every day of things Wayland can do that X11 cannot. Let’s hope for more of that.

          • @LeFantome@programming.dev
            3•10 months ago

            You left a very gracious reply so let’s not fight.

            I see a certain amount of irony in the overlap between the group of people ranting that Wayland has too many implementations and the group demanding more implementations of everything else. So that was my point.

            Certainly we can agree though that there is nothing wrong with demanding more of both.

            One my favourite new distros, Chimera, uses both Wayland and dinit (and Turnstile ).

            I am interested to see where the diversity that Wayland provides goes actually. Have you seen this?

            https://github.com/CuarzoSoftware/Louvre

        • @shekau@lemmy.today
          0•10 months ago

          There are more examples every day of things Wayland can do that X11 cannot

          What are the examples Wayland can do and X11 cannot?

      • frozen
        3•10 months ago

        Not sure if you’re a troll, but if you’re serious, nothing I say is going to change your mind, so I won’t bother.

      • @30p87@feddit.de
        2•10 months ago

        I never configured anything on X with a DE, let it be KDE, Gnome or Cosmic, but configure everything with config files I can just copy on sway. It has nothing to do with X or Wayland, but the DE/WM you use.

  • Anna
    32•10 months ago

    Put one hand on the top and one on bottom and rotate the screen by 90° or π/2 radians

  • @nehal3m@sh.itjust.works
    31•10 months ago

    Rotate the left display 90 degrees clockwise. Now they’re both in landscape. Ta-da!

    Sorry, I’ll see myself out.

  • ta00000 [none/use name]English
    17•10 months ago

    On the arch wiki for SSDM I found this:

    Changes to your display configuration made in a Plasma Wayland session (e.g. monitor layout, resolution, etc) will not persist to SDDM. To make them persist open Plasma’s System Settings and navigate to Startup and Shutdown> Login Screen (SDDM) and click “Apply Plasma Settings…”. You will need to have permission to perform this action.

    You should give that a try

  • @ClemaX@lemm.ee
    15•10 months ago

    From Archwiki > xrandr:

    Tip: Both GDM and SDDM have startup scripts that are executed when X is initiated. For GDM, these are in /etc/gdm/, while for SDDM this is done at /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup. This method requires root access and mucking around in system configuration files, but will take effect earlier in the startup process than using xprofile.

      • Klara
        10•10 months ago

        SDDM is still X11 based, no matter which desktop you run with it. I have tried enabling Wayland on it, but it’s been… Unstable to say the least.

  • foremanguy
    13•10 months ago

    That’s not the point here but can you share your wallpaper? 😄

  • Björn Tantau
    8•10 months ago

    Is this when the screen is locked or when you’re logged out? Those are two different things and I suspect it’s the latter. That’s probably sddm and I suspect it can be fixed by using Wayland with it. Should be some option in /etc/sddm.conf or so.

    • @governorkeagan@lemdro.idOPEnglish
      6•10 months ago

      I corrected the post, thanks for calling it out! It’s fine when locked but the issue happens when logged out.

  • @bloodfart@lemmy.ml
    4•10 months ago

    usually monitors can be freely rotated. if yours can’t, the back usually has a square vesa mount on the back and you can just take out the four screws and reattach it the way you like.

  • ta00000 [none/use name]English
    2•10 months ago

    I’ve just been logging in upside down for a couple years. My monitor’s vesa Mount is like 3 inches from the top for some reason so having it upside down is the only way I can get a reasonable ergonomic height

    Which display manager are you using?