Bug 515855 - Kscreen-doctor cannot rotate away from landscape mode
Summary: Kscreen-doctor cannot rotate away from landscape mode
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: KScreen
Classification: Plasma
Component: kscreen-doctor (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 6.6.80
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR major
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kscreen-bugs-null@kde.org
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Reported: 2026-02-11 07:33 UTC by s014g03s
Modified: 2026-02-11 07:33 UTC (History)
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What my screens look like when in the KDE desktop (380.50 KB, image/jpeg)
2026-02-11 07:33 UTC, s014g03s
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Description s014g03s 2026-02-11 07:33:27 UTC
Created attachment 189457 [details]
What my screens look like when in the KDE desktop

SUMMARY
Today when I booted up (I think from sleep mode) my secondary monitor was rotated the wrong way, kind of. It was set to portrait mode, but when I booted up it was in portrait mode but flipped and scaled to be in landscape mode resulting in a squished and useless desktop space.

I tried to rotate to landscape and rotate back with the settings menu but it didn't change anything (landscape mode looked normal). So I tried to use the command line to rotate it (`kscreen-doctor output.2.rotation.right`), but it rotated my main screen and now that one is stuck in landscape-portrait wacko mode too. As it stands the system is borked because both screens are rendering wrong and the mouse is now stuck in the second monitor. I tried `kscreen-doctor output.1.rotation.right` just for fun, but it also did nothing.

I don't remember making any changes recently. I did enable and disable kwin scripts to try out tiling, but that was more than 4 cycles ago.

I'm not sure how or if it's related, but I switched back to Ubuntu's default GNOME desktop and I can't load any games from steam now, if it does load it's incredibly laggy.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Install KDE-Desktop on Ubuntu system
2. Install and enable/disable Kwin scripts
3. reboot and then wake from sleep
4. Use `kscreen-doctor` to rotate monitors

*Not sure if this will work to reproduce, since I don't really know what exactly happened.

OBSERVED RESULT
Secondary monitor set to portrait made was forced into landscape mode with portrait parameters remaining. When rotating main monitor (accidentally, as kscreen has it as output 2) which is naturally in landscape, result is the same squished resolution and cannot be rotated back (`kscreen-doctor output.2.rotation.left` does nothing).

EXPECTED RESULT
Secondary monitor is set to portrait mode properly, all monitors are able to be rotateted without being stuck with weird outputs.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
(available in the Info Center app, or by running `kinfo` in a terminal window)
Operating System: Ubuntu 25.10
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.17.0
Qt Version: 6.9.2
Kernel Version: 6.17.0-14-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 16 × Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2687W v2 @ 3.40GHz
Memory: 32 GiB of RAM (30.3 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: llvmpipe

GPU: NVIDIA Corporation GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070 Ti] (rev a1)


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Please see attached picture to see what I'm talking about in regards to the squished screens. Let me know what other info I can provide.

P.S. - I'm not sure if the severity is correct, but since the KDE desktop is borked and I cannot load any videogames I chose major.