Tallscreen Monitor

Do vertically scrolling texts and images look lame on your widescreen monitor? Then rotate it!

Frame buffer or modesetting rotation
Support for framebuffer rotation must be enabled in the kernel (this is not required for rotation using Xorg).

The  kernel boot option is used to rotate the kernel frame buffer at boot time.

If you wish to rotate your display to the right and are using GRUB-0, append the option  to the   lines in

To perform the same rotation with GRUB2, append  to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX variable in  and execute the  command:

The screen should be reoriented on the next boot, assuming the kernel has been compiled with rotation support.

Xorg rotation
can rotate Xorg output at runtime, but the best practice is to rotate the display when Xorg is initialized and before anything is rendered.

First determine the name of you display output by running while Xorg is active. Look for a line like HDMI1 connected....

Then add a  option to the monitor section of  configuration file:

Xorg should now rotate the screen at X startup.

The author of this article uses tallscreen monitors whenever possible, but also uses a tiling window manager. Results may vary with other desktop environments.