Helix, Heelix, (H)elix1

Apr 18, '08 9:54 AM
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So my little one was pounding out some on-line homework this morning, and discovered a shortcut combination I never knew existed.

Cntrl + Alt + Down arrow causes the display to invert. Not helpful at all on a laptop. Had to google for that one. Silly. My first thought were, what sort of driver update just horked her system, followed by this has to be the strangest hardware failure I've ever seen.

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deamos wrote on Apr 18

That doesn't work in Vista at least.

sielwolf wrote on Apr 18

... well since I use iTuneKeys CTRL+ALT+DOWN decreases the volume in iTunes. Even without it my workstation doesn't do that. Maybe there's some graphics driver service in the background giving you this "functionality"?

justarb wrote on Apr 18

Yeah - sounds more like a feature of the graphics card driver than Winders itself...

heelix wrote on Apr 18

You are correct, sir! Looks like it was one of the 'bonus' features Dell prepackaged with the laptop.

... which does not make it any more of a good thing in my book.

justarb wrote on Apr 18

It's handy if you use a ceiling-mounted projector for demonstrations... Or just to screw with people. ;^)

fortknox wrote on Apr 18

Works on my IBM... may be an intel video driver thang...

toodrunktodream wrote on Apr 18

that's definitely one way to screw with people.....

samthebutcher wrote on Apr 18

On Macs it's ctrl-opt-cmd-8.

samthebutcher wrote on Apr 18

Whoops...closer look at the pic shows not invert as in colors, but invert as in along the horiz. axis.

Dunno if you can do that on a Mac! :)

mikemol wrote on Apr 18

heelix said

You are correct, sir! Looks like it was one of the 'bonus' features Dell prepackaged with the laptop.

... which does not make it any more of a good thing in my book.

Trying the keyboard shortcut in Visual Studio, I discovered it lets me use the keyboard to select which of my open files I want to display.

Kinda cool. And already know it'd irritate me if Dell's graphics drivers got in my way.

oculushabent wrote on Apr 18

not by key command, but it's in the Display panel... used to have a rotated LCD hooked up to my MBP.

In XP, the same combo (Intel drivers, IIRC) with different arrows will give you all four ordinal rotate commands, I believe. I've had people call and ask me about it.

samthebutcher wrote on Apr 18

Why so it is!

Man, it's hard to move the mouse on a flipped display. :)

slashchick wrote on Apr 19

Funny, it doesn't work on my X60. Then again, I have a really custom Windows install on this laptop and I chose not to install most of the "standard" drivers.

-Erica

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