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Rotate HDMI output to change orientation of terminal in headless Ubuntu/Linux
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rotate-headless-ubuntu-output.sh
# rotate the current framebuffer
echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/class/graphics/fbcon/rotate
# rotate all framebuffers
echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/class/graphics/fbcon/rotate_all
# Permanantly rotate framebuffer for headless server
echo 'GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="fbcon=rotate:1"' | sudo tee /etc/default/grub
sudo update-grub
sudo reboot
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