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Re: [LUG] kitten reversed screen!

 

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:16:50 +0100
james kilty wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 13:37 +0100, William Fidell wrote:
> > 
> > bas wrote:
> > > heheh, sorry, couldn't help but laugh. and on top of that i don't
> > > have an answer !!
> > > 
> > 
> > That was my response. I was going to suggest getting the kitten to
> > walk back the other way.
> Actually she did this for a laugh.
> > 
> > Although I have my suspicions that someone is shifting the blame
> > for their own cock up onto the nearest target.  I mean really was
> > the cat after the mouse or something? :)
> The key combinations suggested by Grant are possible if one back foot
> was on <Alt> one front foot was on <Ctrl> and the other front foot was
> on <up arrow>. Then it sat on the mouse area! I'd never heard that you
> could reverse the screen like this - (for whatever reason?) - it is a
> good trick to play on someone and it might well happen in the near
> future!
> 
> James

Useful if you have a machine connected to a ceiling-mounted
monitor/display.  You can also frequently also rotate the screen - so
you'd have a portrait display rather than landscape.  (I've found this
quite a comfortable way of reading full-screen, portrait A4 PDFs (ie
eBooks) on a netbook.)

Grant.

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