{"id":963,"date":"2026-03-23T18:05:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notiz.comanet.xyz\/?p=963"},"modified":"2026-03-23T18:05:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T17:05:20","slug":"klipperscreen-screen-rotation-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notiz.comanet.xyz\/?p=963","title":{"rendered":"KlipperScreen – Screen rotation Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Configure the server to start in the desired orientation, there are many ways to achieve this, here are some examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warning<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rotation is handled by the OS and not by KlipperScreen, if you can’t rotate your screen it’s usually an issue with the OS configuration<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Examples of rotation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Universal xorg configuration<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Universal xorg configuration<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Find the identifier use xrandr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>DISPLAY=:0 xrandr\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
it will output something like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 600, maximum 8192 x 8192\n<\/a>HDMI-1 connected primary 1024x600+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 800mm x 450mm\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Take not that the screen is HDMI-1<\/code> (it could be HDMI-A-1<\/code> or many other names)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Create \/usr\/share\/X11\/xorg.conf.d\/90-monitor.conf<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>sudo nano \/usr\/share\/X11\/xorg.conf.d\/90-monitor.conf\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Paste this section modifying the options to suit your needs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
90-monitor.conf<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>Section \"Monitor\"\n<\/a>    Identifier \"HDMI-1\"\n<\/a>    # This identifier would be the same as the name of the connector printed by xrandr\n<\/a>    # for example  \"DVI-I-1 connected primary\" means that the identifier is \"DVI-I-1\"\n<\/a>    # another example \"Unknown19-1 connected primary\" some GPIO screens identify as Unknown19\n<\/a>\n<\/a>    Option \"Rotate\" \"left\"\n<\/a>    # Valid rotation options are normal,inverted,left,right\n<\/a>\n<\/a>    Option \"PreferredMode\" \"1920x1080\"\n<\/a>    # May be necessary if you are not getting your preferred resolution.\n<\/a>EndSection\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Save the file and restart KlipperScreen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>sudo service KlipperScreen restart\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
if KlipperScreen doesn’t restart:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>sudo reboot\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
you may have to adjust the touch rotation<\/a> Raspberry Pi using kernel cmdline<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Raspberry Pi using kernel cmdline<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
To set screen orientation when in console mode, you will need to edit the kernel command-line to pass the required orientation to the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>sudo nano \/boot\/firmware\/cmdline.txt\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
To rotate by 90 degrees clockwise, add the following to the cmdline, making sure everything is on the same line, do not add any carriage returns. Possible rotation values are 0, 90, 180 and 270.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example a DSI screen:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>video=DSI-1:800x480@60,rotate=90\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
To find the identifier on a terminal run:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>grep -H . \/sys\/class\/drm\/card*-*\/status | grep :connected\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
you will get somthing like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>\/sys\/class\/drm\/card0-HDMI-A-1\/status:connected\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
where HDMI-A-1 would be the identifier<\/p>\n\n\n\n
in this case the identifier is HDMI-1 and a simple cmdline arg would be something like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>video=HDMI-A-1:1024x600@60\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
To apply changes do a reboot:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>sudo reboot\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Read the official docs for more info<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Raspberry Display docs<\/a> Using a dtoverlay config on a Raspberry Pi<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Using a dtoverlay config on a Raspberry Pi<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
In \/boot\/config.txt (or \/boot\/firmware\/config.txt)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
with some display you can add rotate, like this example for a 3.5″<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>dtoverlay=waveshare35b-v2,rotate=270,drm,speed=30000000,fps=60\n<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Configure the server to start in the desired orientation, there are many ways to achieve this, here are some examples: Warning Rotation is handled by the OS and not by KlipperScreen, if you can’t rotate your screen it’s usually an issue with the OS configuration Examples of rotation Universal xorg configuration Universal xorg configuration Find…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,3,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-print","category-how-to-s","category-raspberry-pi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notiz.comanet.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notiz.comanet.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notiz.comanet.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notiz.comanet.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notiz.comanet.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/notiz.comanet.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/notiz.comanet.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notiz.comanet.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notiz.comanet.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notiz.comanet.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}