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10.4: Enable screen rotatiion on some PowerBooks
Authored by: theocrates on May 20, '05 11:13:12AM

Be careful with this. I rotated my 14" iBook G4 for kicks, and when I went back to Displays by option-clicking, the Rotation field wouldn't reappear despite several tries!

A quick restart and subsequent option-click on the Displays pane solved the problem--but only after spending 10 minutes fighting with my trackpad! LOL!



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10.4: Enable screen rotatiion on some PowerBooks
Authored by: GKR on May 20, '05 11:22:15AM

Ditto this on an eMac. I found that by quitting System Preferences, then opening again, then restarting the Graphics preference with the Option key pressed, Rotate would then appear and I could return to standard settings.



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10.4: Enable screen rotatiion on some PowerBooks
Authored by: fractacular on May 20, '05 11:24:01AM

I had the same thing happen -- the rotation menu disappeared after I rotated. However, you can just quit system preferences and restart it, then option click displays to get the menu again; no need to reboot the computer.

Now, somebody needs to write a driver to change the trackpad orientation so I can actually use rotation to read documents in portrait (among other things!) -- I've always done this in Preview by rotation 270 and going full screen, but it'd be great to be able to have the mouse work like this....



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