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You won't see this panel on every Mac - the 12' PowerBook I own, for instance, doesn't seem to want to let me type sideways. My main machine, though, can have a rotated display, and it works quite well. Warning: A friend of mine tried the rotation trick on his machine with an older (VGA CRT) monitor connected. Somehow, this resulted in a scan. Open 'System Preferences' from the Apple menu. Select 'Displays'. Select the preferred degree of rotation from the pull down menu. The first 3 hexadecimal numbers can be used to determine which company the MAC was assigned to. For instance, 00-03-93 is one (of many) MAC OUI prefixes that belongs to Apple. This doesn't always work if the MAC has been spoofed, has been set manually, or if it is assigned to a virtual machine (or you have a lot of devices.

I remember visiting a college in 1985 (readers, I'm that ancient), and seeing the height of glamor and magic: a portrait-orientation CRT screen that was part of a typesetting system. Because type was composed in 'galleys,' long runs of relatively narrow columns, someone entering copy could more easily see a long run of text this way.

Computers have come a long way, but this orientation remains the same. You may wind up with a lot of tasks that are better suited for a long vertical, like long runs of text that you're writing, lots of lengthy menus or a huge array of palettes, or material that stacks well in wide rectangles from top to bottom for reference, like resized windows. Galaxy conquest mac os.

Long ago, you had to rely on drivers or third-party software to rotate a monitor's display, but Apple added it to its Mac operating systems long ago. It's not precisely hidden—though it can be, more in a moment—but it may be something you never considered.

Some monitors even include a rotation joint where the display meet its stand. I recall accidentally partially rotating a monitor a few years ago that I didn't know had such a joint and thought I'd broken it for a moment!

In most cases, you should be able to open the Displays preference pane and if macOS supports rotation on a monitor, a Rotate or Rotation menu appears in the Display tab, with options that can vary by version of macOS and display features. Apple notes mysteriously, 'If you don't see the pop-up menu, your computer doesn't support this feature.' It doesn't maintain a list of which Macs have or don't have it. iMacs don't appear to support native rotation.

On older versions of Mac OS X and macOS, you may need to open System Preferences and while holding down Command and Option click the Displays item to force a rotation menu to appear.

If your Mac won't rotate its internal display or external displays, SwitchResX ($16) may be able to help.

You won't see this panel on every Mac - the 12' PowerBook I own, for instance, doesn't seem to want to let me type sideways. My main machine, though, can have a rotated display, and it works quite well. Warning: A friend of mine tried the rotation trick on his machine with an older (VGA CRT) monitor connected. Somehow, this resulted in a scan. Open 'System Preferences' from the Apple menu. Select 'Displays'. Select the preferred degree of rotation from the pull down menu. The first 3 hexadecimal numbers can be used to determine which company the MAC was assigned to. For instance, 00-03-93 is one (of many) MAC OUI prefixes that belongs to Apple. This doesn't always work if the MAC has been spoofed, has been set manually, or if it is assigned to a virtual machine (or you have a lot of devices.

I remember visiting a college in 1985 (readers, I'm that ancient), and seeing the height of glamor and magic: a portrait-orientation CRT screen that was part of a typesetting system. Because type was composed in 'galleys,' long runs of relatively narrow columns, someone entering copy could more easily see a long run of text this way.

Computers have come a long way, but this orientation remains the same. You may wind up with a lot of tasks that are better suited for a long vertical, like long runs of text that you're writing, lots of lengthy menus or a huge array of palettes, or material that stacks well in wide rectangles from top to bottom for reference, like resized windows. Galaxy conquest mac os.

Long ago, you had to rely on drivers or third-party software to rotate a monitor's display, but Apple added it to its Mac operating systems long ago. It's not precisely hidden—though it can be, more in a moment—but it may be something you never considered.

Some monitors even include a rotation joint where the display meet its stand. I recall accidentally partially rotating a monitor a few years ago that I didn't know had such a joint and thought I'd broken it for a moment!

In most cases, you should be able to open the Displays preference pane and if macOS supports rotation on a monitor, a Rotate or Rotation menu appears in the Display tab, with options that can vary by version of macOS and display features. Apple notes mysteriously, 'If you don't see the pop-up menu, your computer doesn't support this feature.' It doesn't maintain a list of which Macs have or don't have it. iMacs don't appear to support native rotation.

On older versions of Mac OS X and macOS, you may need to open System Preferences and while holding down Command and Option click the Displays item to force a rotation menu to appear.

If your Mac won't rotate its internal display or external displays, SwitchResX ($16) may be able to help.

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I lost my display a couple of times as well since Tiger due to out-of-scan problems. The solution is easy: In the /Users//Library/Preferences/ByHost-directory of the user who changed the resolution you should delete the file that starts with com.apple.windowserver.plist (behind that is some code to identify your computer, in case you have a network home directory.
You could delete this file from from single-user mode, an admin-account, from OS9, whatever you feel comfortable with.
And in my case: I have an LCD (Eizo L557) and merely clicking on the selected resolution (1280x1024) makes the scan frequency go crazy, without a warning dialogue. Even though it is connected through DVI. Very strange, but I think it is just a 10.4.0-thing, will be fixed soon.

You may also be able to bypass the scan rate problem, and delete the windowserver.plist file, by starting up the Mac in Safe Boot mode (hold down the Shift key at startup).

I believe this is for Macs that have ATI graphics cards. My PowerMac G5 has one of the nVidia cards, and does not have this option in the Display preference panel. Neither does my 12' PowerBook.

sounds to me like laying the groundwork for a tablet mac. anyone care to speculate?

I'd love it if they released a tablet, but a more present day function is for those rotating LCD monitors like Dell has, 2005fpw. I have one but I can't get this rotation trick to work on my 12' pb. It is a handy feature though, since documents are usually laid out vertically and a vertical screen would let you see more of the document at once. I did see something mentioned that said sub-pixel rendering relied on horizontal displays though, so the color accuracy and even readability goes down when it's rotated.

I believe this will only work if the display has 'Geometry controls'. My Alu 23' does not have these controls. :( I tried in vain to get the drop down menu and ended up typing 'Rotate' in the System Pref Spotlight search box and then selecting 'Screen Image' that dropped down and appeared. Doing this I observed another drop down pane/sheet that indicated
The Geometry tab of Displays preferences is hidden because this display does not have geometry controls.
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Hmmm - reading some of the other replies makes me add - I have 2x 2.5GHz PM G5 with the nVidia 6800 Ultra.
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Try holding OPTION+COMMAND when clicking in the Displays icon in the System Preferences. ;)
This seems to work with iBooks and PowerBooks.
CAUTION: Try it at your own risk. As it's not shown by default, there may be a good reason for this.
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Does not work for me, I have a 17 inch powerbook of the first generation. But I did notice this, if one holds shift-option while clicking on monitor, you get the slow motion version of the transition between all preference pane and the monitor preference.

Works fine for me on my 17' 1.33 PowerBook with the Radeon 9600. Make sure you quit system preferences first before holding option-command. If you get the wrong keys you have to quit the preferences and try again.

Well. I changed it and took by accident 180deg. After changing, the option was gone, so I was in a little trouble suddenly :) But quitting system prefs and alt-click brought the rotate back and I changed it to normal. I'll try 90deg in a moment. Right now, the anti-aliasing is rather screwed up.

Guys, there is no alt on the mac. At the gates mac os. There is the Command (or Apple) key, the option key, and the control key.
In this case the poster means option. To get the rotate menu, do the following:
Close System Prefs.
Open System Prefs.
Hold down the option key while selecting Displays
On my Original Titanium G4 Powerbook the rotate menu shows up automatically for the cinema display, but not for the internal monitor. Doing the option trick brings it up for both. Rotating the display on the powerbook is no problem. To rotate it back to normal, just follow the steps above again.

That's funny. My option key clearly also says 'alt'. De mambo mac os.

FYI, alt is used on a lot of non-US Apple keyboards in place of opt.
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Worked for me! Now I can have my MacBook Pro on it's side and use it as a text reader while using an external display as the main display.
15' MacBook Pro (2009) OS X 10.6.4

Oh, I should add I have to have a second monitor hooked up for this to work. If it's just the MacBook by itself it doesn't work.

If you want to read in bed, Preview allows rotating of PDFs. This is very effective and I've used it extensively to read books and manuals in a landscape format.
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Apple decided to hide rorate option on some models despite they have capabilities to rotate it. The way to unleash rotating (provided hardware supports the trick) is:
1. Run System Preferences (the point is, it must be just-run, so quit it and reopen if you have it already opened)
2. Alt-click at Displays
3. Select your rotatation :)
If you want to revert to previous rotation, or to standard - close System Preferences and go to #1

Hrm. not sure what is wrong. I do have the 10.4.1 update, but this trick, holding down alt/opt when clicking displays (yes, being the first thing i do after opening system preferences from the lil apple drop down menu)
Ive got one of the newer 1.5GHz 12' powerbooks. Id really like to figure out how to flip the display with an apple script, so that i can use the sudden motion sensor to flip the display automagically if i tilt it sideways to read it like a book. I think you can see where this is going. that mouse button is in the perfect spot for 'flipping pages' in an ebook.
=)

The town of st. exton mac os. Does anyone know if there is a display that sends a signal to the mac that it has been pivoted, so that the display auto changes.
Is this possible?
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Zapping the PRAM should have resolved the out of sync/freq problem. Bluestacks exe zip download. I'm guessing

Nope. Zapping PRAM has no effect.
The only thing that helps is a safe boot. (Boot and hold down the shift key - just like you used to do in Mac OS 9).

This only works on ATI cards. You might have to hold down option to make the rotate popup appear when clicking on displays.

After 'upgrading' my 14' iBook with SceenSpanningDoctor to enable monitor spanning, the ROTATE menu appeared on my external Xeorx 1280x1024 monitor. Awesome.
The only downside is speed on the external monitor. Any dragging of windows is very choppy; probably because the CPU is swithing the X and Y axises on the fly, affecting performance.
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On my G4 iBook I was able to do this by hitting 'option' when launching the pref pane. But after rotating I couldn't accesse the option again - I was stuck with an upside-down display. Finally, i was able to undo the action by restarting the computer and repeating the procedure.
I read about this hint on /. in an article about Apple's new patent for a tablet computer. although who knows what the patent is *really* for.

On the warning for a scan-out-of-range error:
This popped up at MacFixIt a couple of weeks ago with a forum member.
http://www.macfixitforums.com/php/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=tiger&Number=688727
The solution was simply to safe boot and change the display settings and then immediately reboot.

This is the EXACT same hint (without the in-depth detail) the The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW). Here is the link.
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
I have my high school textbook on PDF, and I rotate my 15 in PowerBook screen to read it. Which is very helpful.

I have a 9800 Mac Edition retail card in a dual 2.0 G5. This option doesn't come up with any key combination that I can find. I can rotate the monitor with the ATI Displays using Versavision but not with the Displays preferences.
Any ideas?
I even went back and reinstalled drivers from the CD that came with card and all updates since. This didn't help. When I updated to Tiger, I didn't install anything other than the ATI Displays program, figuring that surely the drivers came with Tiger.

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Now if I could only rotate my trackpad. It took me about 10 minutes just to put the rotation back on my ibook after I tried this. Quite a mental exercise. Now I need to go this try this on my 20' imac and buy that vesa mount that I have been wanting.

Does anyone know if there is there an apple script that will rotate the display for me?

I heard that the Cinema Displays overheat if you rotate them.
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I know its been a year later, but I would really like to get this to work on a laptop of mine. I remember this feature a long time ago, but looked again today and couldn't get it to come up in the system preferences. Is there a preference file somewhere that I could flip my screen 180 degrees.
As a side note, everybody probably knows that holding shift and clicking minimize will make windows minimize/maximize slowly, and there's lots of tricks with that with dashboard and expose and all that stuff. I found one today that I didn't know about tho while trying to get this to work. You used to have to hold Option and click the Displays preference in system preferences, well while holding the Shift and Option keys, it makes the system preferences load in slow motion.
Anyways, any help on this would be appreciated.

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it depends on your hardware. If there's no such a menu in the Display preferences, your hardware can't rotate image.

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