Can't Rotate screen on RPI 3 running i3

[BofARM]

Hey,

I’m running the latest version of Manjaro ARM i3 on a Raspberry Pi3 (Raspberry Pi 4 I3 20.10). I can’t for the love of me get the screen to rotate. I recently switched from Manjaro Wayland to this version because of Synergy support.

What I tried:

• Using xrandr to rotate the screen. xrandr only sees a “Default” screen and when I try to rotate it I get the error:

  $ xrandr --output default --rotate inverted
  xrandr: output default cannot use rotation "inverted" reflection "none"
  

• Using arandr to rotate the screen. This will show my desktop in the GUI tool but the options to Rotate are greyed out
• Using the Raspberry PI config file at /boot/config.txt to set the rotation. This does also not work.

I’m running the Stock version with no extra software. Any tips on how to get the screen to rotate?

[DrCrashALot]

Hi BofARM,

This thread below discusses a similar problem - basically xrandr does not work on i3. Its for the RPi4, but I think the distros would be very similar. You can give it a try and see if it works. I can now rotate my screen on my RPi4.

Sadly, I cannot post links; so just search this forum:

I3 on Raspberry Pi 4 with dual monitors

This will get xrandr working. Hope it helps; good luck.

[BofARM]

You made my weekend! I was searching weeks for this. For all future visitors, the solution is over at: I3 on Raspberry Pi 4 with dual monitors - #7 by BashCrash