Submitted by ThomR on 2010/01/26 20:48
Does this ever happen to anyone else? When trying to move items around with the alt+arrow keys, every now and then this combination will switch to producing rotations of my screen, and I can't figure out what I'm pressing to switch the functionality. I'm on Windows 7 now, but this also happened with Vista.

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This is very weird
 
No, I've never seen that. But a quick Google search gives this:
 
[quote]"OMG! My screen just rotated!" - this was the message I received from my wife through MSN. She was working on the computer at work and all of the sudden, a certain combination of keystrokes made her screen display rotate 90 degrees to the left, which basically meant that she was entering the text on MSN with her head tilted all the way to the left too.

I never used Windows Vista before, but a quick Google search allowed me to discover the correct shortcut that you can use to turn your computer display back to normal: the shortcut Ctrl + Alt + Arrow key shortcut rotates the display in 90 degree increments.

Just thought this could be useful to other Windows Vista users out there that will freak out if their displays flip upside down :-)</quote]
 
Perhaps, you also press Ctrl when this happens...

ThomR

2010/01/26 21:20

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 I don't press control, just my right alt and the arrows. Left alt works fine: it must have something to do with altgr functionality. But why it happens so sporadically is beyond me. I tried changing my keyboard input language, but it isn't helping. Note, this is only happening when I'm in Infoqube... no screen rotation occurs pressing these keys in other programs.

Pierre_Admin

2010/01/26 21:22

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AFAIK, Alt-gr key does translate to Ctrl-Alt (in XP at least)
 

ThomR

2010/01/26 21:32

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 Exactly. I think somehow alt-gr is being 'activated' for my right-alt key on infrequent occasions (NB: usually, right-alt + arrows work fine). I'll keep digging, it's probably idiosyncratic.

ThomR

2010/01/26 21:52

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 Well, restarting Infoqube fixed it. Just like my modem!  
 
Works for me.