I have two desktop monitors that I have rotated clockwise. The systems settings feature is bugged (the "Confirm" button was not clickable), so I rotated them using xrandr:
$ xrandr --output DP1 --rotate left
$ xrandr --output VGA1 --right-of DP1 --rotate left
However, when I logout or restart, these settings get lost. Next, I decided to take the ~/config/monitors.xml:
<monitors version="1">
<configuration>
<clone>no</clone>
<output name="DP1">
<vendor>HWP</vendor>
<product>HP ZR2440w</product>
<serial>CN43270JLZ</serial>
<width>1200</width>
<height>1920</height>
<rate>59.950172424316406</rate>
<x>0</x>
<y>3</y>
<rotation>left</rotation>
<reflect_x>no</reflect_x>
<reflect_y>no</reflect_y>
<primary>yes</primary>
<presentation>no</presentation>
<underscanning>no</underscanning>
</output>
<output name="VGA1">
<vendor>DEL</vendor>
<product>DELL 2405FPW</product>
<serial>M675462F1E5S </serial>
<width>1920</width>
<height>1200</height>
<rate>59.950172424316406</rate>
<x>1920</x>
<y>0</y>
<rotation>left</rotation>
<reflect_x>no</reflect_x>
<reflect_y>no</reflect_y>
<primary>no</primary>
<presentation>no</presentation>
<underscanning>no</underscanning>
</output>
</configuration>
</monitors>
and rotated them both left. However, when I logout or restart, this too gets ignored. I read about a bug of this with Ubuntu, so I thought this might apply here: But pkill -9 -f gnome-settings-daemon did not read in these settings (at least, the displays were still not rotated).
There's not much to search: All results I found for Ubuntu I tried, and for elementary OS, I found not much to begin with. Here's what xrandr reports (after manually turning the displays): How should I proceed?
DP1 connected primary 1200x1920+0+0 left (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 520mm x 320mm
1920x1200 59.95*+
1920x1080 60.00 50.00 59.94
1920x1080i 60.00 50.00 59.94
1600x1200 60.00
1680x1050 59.95
1680x945 60.02
1400x1050 59.98
1600x900 60.00
1280x1024 60.02
1440x900 59.89
1280x960 60.00
1366x768 59.79
1360x768 60.02
1280x800 59.81
1280x768 59.87
1280x720 60.00 50.00 59.94
1024x768 60.00
1024x576 59.97
800x600 60.32 56.25
720x576 50.00
848x480 60.00
720x480 60.00 59.94
640x480 60.00 59.94
HDMI1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
VGA1 connected 1200x1920+1200+0 left (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 520mm x 330mm
1920x1200 59.95*+
1600x1200 60.00
1680x1050 59.95
1280x1024 75.02 60.02
1152x864 75.00
1024x768 75.08 60.00
800x600 75.00 60.32
640x480 75.00 60.00
720x400 70.08
VIRTUAL1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
