Rotate the SDDM login screen (22.04)

[masdongo]

Pardon me, I'm new into Linux. Due to some weird quirk, i mounted my monitor upside down. I could rotate my main screen, but the first login screen still showing on normal position. I tried to rotate it from this instruction. But no avail after restart and logout. Only at lock and sleep (after login) which they display on the right orientation. Any idea of how to rotate first login screen?

For what i did on that instruction :
1. Accessing /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup
2. Paste the rotate command directly at very bottom of the line and save
3. Accessing /var/lib/sddm/state.conf via vim and paste the trigger command at the very bottom (X11 blablabla), save

[oshunluvr]

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1254...n-screen-20-04

[Snowhog]

oshunluvr Your link is the same one the OP indicated.

[oshunluvr]

Bleary morning eyes did not see the link in the text...

[claydoh]

I think you need to modify something else to add custom settings. I'll double check when I'm not working and can switch over to my PC which has a custom monitor config for SDDM


OK >>>> maybe not. I can't find any edits I did to disable one of my screens in SDDM, and I suspect I removed the change, or it was overridden somehow.

A problem is that we have different locations for sddm configs, including /etc/sddm.conf, /etc/sddm. /etc/sddm.conf.d, as well as simila stuff in /usr/share/sddm/

Paste the rotate command directly at very bottom of the line and save

can you show what you discovered and used for the command to rotate the monitor? Can we assume that it works when you run it manually?

[oshunluvr]

Going to the Arch Wiki/Manpages (as always), this works:

Edit "/etc/sddm.conf" and add this:

[X11]
DisplayCommand=/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup

Note that if the [X11] section already exists, just add the DisplayCommand line below it.

Edit "/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup" and add this:

xrandr --output DisplayPort-0 --rotate inverted

Note here that "DisplayPort-0" is the monitor name on my system. Enter "xrandr" into a konsole terminal and find the name of your monitor. It will be the first "word" on the second line of the xrandr output.



Reboot and this is the result:


Obviously works as requested. I suggest undoing all other edits you've done and try the above.

Reference link:
https://man.archlinux.org/man/sddm.conf.5

[Snowhog]

No matter what anyone says about Arch Linux (their forum support is, well, very terse!), their Wiki pages are excellent!

[Schwarzer Kater]

[…] Reboot and this is the result:

I am feeling a bit seasick now…

[oshunluvr]

You should try typing in that mode!!!