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10.4: A set of AppleScripts to rotate the display
Authored by: PopMcGee on Jul 29, '05 11:43:23AM

Before 10.4.2, one could hold down option to force the rotate button to appear in the monitor control panel on a powerbook. In 10.4.2 this feature has been lost, unfortunately without any noise from the people. Does this script re-enable it? I've tried it out and it didn't do anything, apart from giving me the error that it can't click the radio button named "Display". Too bad :-(



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Not on all hardware
Authored by: lullabud on Jul 29, '05 01:33:33PM

I have an original 12" powerbook and I could never get the rotate option to appear, not in any version of OS X. Other people I know with iBooks and different powerbooks also could not get it to appear.



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Not on all hardware
Authored by: zpjet on Oct 24, '05 05:08:39AM

twelveincher doesn't have ati huh?



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10.4: A set of AppleScripts to rotate the display
Authored by: krrt on Jul 29, '05 04:32:13PM

The option-click method used to work on my iBook G4 1GHz 14", but doesn't anymore (I'm currently running 10.4.2). I haven't tried it in a while, so I don't know which update broke it. Too bad, it was fun, even if I had no practical use for it.



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10.4: A set of AppleScripts to rotate the display
Authored by: kainjow on Jul 29, '05 06:45:14PM

Ahh more proof of the iTablet!!! ;)



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10.4: A set of AppleScripts to rotate the display
Authored by: wheeles on Jul 30, '05 12:04:31PM

Not necessarily.

The ability to rotate the display is something I have certainly requested of Apple back in the days of Panther. I imagine others have too. Maybe Apple chose to implement this request and it has nothing to do with tablets. It's possible that the G4 iMac was going to gain a screen that rotated, but that never happened.

I have a Samsung SyncMaster 570P TFT monitor that allows you to rotate it from landscape to portrait. There is software on Windows available to rotate the display to match the monitor (and also on Mac pre-OS X).

Sadly my G4 PowerMac is not Radeon equipped, so I still can't make use of it!



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10.4: A set of AppleScripts to rotate the display
Authored by: conrad on Jul 29, '05 07:16:34PM
I don't know how to enable the rotate submenu if it's not there. However, if you get the error that it can't click on the "Display" radio button, open the script in Script Editor, and change the line:
click radio button "Display"
to
click radio button 1


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I get the rotate button but only on an external monitor
Authored by: porkchop_d_clown on Aug 03, '05 09:18:14AM

on my 15" AlBook, I get the rotate button when I connect to an external monitor, just not with the built-in LCD.

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I get the rotate button but only on an external monitor
Authored by: conrad on Aug 10, '05 01:47:52PM

The blog post above mentions this, but not the actual post: This script only rotates external displays (or all displays on a PowerMac desktop).

Apple didn't want the built-in display to rotate on PowerBooks b/c it can be difficult to navigate the mouse to reverse that condition. If you really want to rotate your built-in display, there's a trick to re-enable it in certain 10.4.x revisions: hold down Option before clicking the Displays pref. panel. Note: this is not available in all versions of Tiger.



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