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AVD Screen orientation not changing with CTRL+F11 or CTRL+F12

I run my app in the AVD emulator using eclipse but I'm unable to change the screen orientation in the AVD (Android 2.0 platform on the emulator).

When I press CONTROL+F11 or CONTROL+F12 on the keyboard, nothing happens. No messages are generated in the adb debuglog/logcat either when I press either hotkey.

According to http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/emulator.html these are the correct hotkeys to switch the emulator's screen orientation.

I tried it with my app, and with the messaging app. The hotkey has no affect in any case.

I'm running Fedora 12, Gnome. I checked my Keyboard Shortcuts in the System -> Preferences menu, nothing's attached to either hotkey.

Same problem, 3 different PCs (all running Fedora Gnome).

+1  A: 

you can also use keypad 7 and keypad 9, did you try them?

Lo'oris  2010-04-26 16:50:18
Just tried - no affect and the numbers come through to the app, so in the messaging app, I see the 7 and 9 characters in the editText box.
Brad Hein  2010-04-26 17:12:04
Brad Hein  2010-04-27 15:46:17
great!#########
Lo'oris  2010-04-27 15:49:20
Also just discovered on my laptop that I can change orientation using FUNCTION+7 and FUNCTION+9
Brad Hein  2010-05-20 04:05:34
+1  A: 

Are you using android:screenOrientation to lock it into one or the other?

BrennaSoft  2010-04-26 17:56:34
+1 nice idea###
Lo'oris  2010-04-26 18:20:12
Same problem with the messaging app, as I specified in my question.
Brad Hein  2010-04-27 15:03:32

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