We would like to use the computers on the 1st level in portrait mode! There is obviously the physical capability to do so (the new mounts allow it), but the control panel setting to actually output the display to portrait mode is locked. I've already emailed IT services, but I thought that if the library agreed that it was a nice idea they might encourage IT to enable it. Enabling portrait mode would facilitate the mass of reading that students and others do on scanned documents! Thank you for considering it.
Our IT colleagues are understandably loath to unlock control features...but the keyboard shortcuts seem to work:
- CTRL+ALT+up arrow: landscape [default]
- CTRL+ALT+down arrow: upside-down/flipped landscape
- CTRL+ALT+left arrow: portrait
- CTRL+ALT+right arrow: upside-down/flipped portrait
Please remember to put the display back in regular landscape mode when you finish, or else the next patron to use the PC might have an unpleasant surprise.
UPDATE: Our colleagues in the Library would like to (strongly) encourage you to leave the computer in landscape mode, as the next user may not be as monitor-savvy as you. Also, the computers on the monitor arms are maintained by the Library, not IT Services.
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