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Windows is currently the only platform supported.

Clone the repo, download as a zip file, or use the following command...

pip install rotate-screen

The package comes with some functions to get available displays in the form of <rotatescreen Display> objects. You can then use the <rotatescreen Display> object methods to change the orientation of the display.

This is a simple example that implements the 'Ctrl+Alt+Arrow' keyboard shortcut for rotating the display. This is because some graphics cards don't come with this capability by default.

This example requires the keyboard module...

pip install keyboard

Here is the code! It adds hotkeys to rotate the primary display in the desired direction upon the user entering Ctrl, Alt and an arrow key. It then waits until the script is exited.

import rotatescreen
import keyboard

screen = rotatescreen.get_primary_display()

keyboard.add_hotkey('ctrl+alt+up', screen.set_landscape, suppress=True)
keyboard.add_hotkey('ctrl+alt+right', screen.set_portrait_flipped, suppress=True)
keyboard.add_hotkey('ctrl+alt+down', screen.set_landscape_flipped, suppress=True)
keyboard.add_hotkey('ctrl+alt+left', screen.set_portrait, suppress=True)

keyboard.wait()

This was a little joke script to show off some more of the modules functionality, due to the way windows rotates the display this is a pretty horrific looking, but entertaining. :)

import rotatescreen
import time

screen = rotatescreen.get_primary_display()
start_pos = screen.current_orientation

for i in range(1, 5):
    pos = abs((start_pos - i*90) % 360)
    screen.rotate_to(pos)
    time.sleep(1.5)