That was.. Unexpected...

Solution: (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

That happened to me all the time when I was on Ubuntu - the temporary solution would be to reboot but I even tried to reinstall Ubuntu and it persisted, so I think it's a hardware prob

is this ubuntu or invertu? xD

no this is (╯°□°）╯︵ nʇunqn

A surprise to be sure but a welcome one

@fuzzy-logic dunno. i just ddg'd "flip texy"

This happened to me once. I think there was an easy fix but I can't search the interwebs for you right now.

@romangraef love it, I know "google it" is a term but I think you just invented ddg'd :D

Well, you can obviously only use this laptop in the Upside-Down. 😏

That's some really cool first impression 🤣

ctrl+alt+t and do
exec usr/share/applications/gnome-display-panel.desktop
that should bring up the display settings

Yeah you can do this in >=17.10

🙃

It's ok just find eleven she'll get you out :P

Did you tried the restart method?

So the display settings didn't show anything except resolution, and I was a little too lazy to try more methods to get it right because I just wanted a live system to save some data from a failing HDD. What's funny though is that the now unsupported 17.04 version worked fine, but I couldn't install ncdu, so I reverted to 16.04 LTS. I think I'll stick to that when I get the new drive

Just Open a terminal, strg alt t should work

xrandr -q

Check the output name you are using, like VGA-1, DSP1, HDMI1, etc. May differ from decide to device

xrandr --output [output name here] --rotate inverted

And go :)

Another way, external monitor.
I am sure the manufacturer of the laptop build in the display 180° inverted from what the manufacturer of the display build it for.
Happens a lot ... Even in smartphones. Has sth to do with space and connections I think... Engineering stuff 😃

😂 it uses Webcam for orientation, please uncover it. True Story

@googolos you're kidding???!!!

@Rohr it got me wondering too ^^

Yea I was joking 😂 but rly first time seeing this

@googolos phew, OK 😂 because this would be crazy af :D

Ah, you must have the Australian version of Ubuntu

@DasKoder 😂 Best comment ever

This almost never happened to me with Windows 😉
(Oh boy, they are going to kill me 😰)

Maybe you downloaded utnubU instead?

I finally found the issue! GNOME3 seems to have a screen orientation mechanism in order to be usable in tablets. And this computer has an accelerometer built in the keyboard. So it sometimes gets confused between upside and downside :)

@oscarascal oh wow, notebook with accelerometer? :D that's... interesting