Linux is the only OS to support diagonal PC monitor mode — dev champions the case for 22-degree-rotation computing
www.tomshardware.com
2024 could be the year of the Linux diagonal desktop.

Not sure I could ever live with that - anyone able to test if multi monitors works?

  • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    302·
    11 months ago

    Very fine, as long as the computer uses X (the good less shitty one). xrandr can use a matrix to transform the entire output, so you can scale, rotate, move, or shear it as much as you’re evil.

      • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
        121·
        11 months ago

        The biggest hurdle is getting shit past the GNOME developers. Wayland could implement a protocol that cures leukemia, and they’d still raise a stink about use-cases because it doesn’t touch other types of cancer.

        • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          Doesn’t need a protocol, just compositor support. Unless you want windows to be aware of being rendered at an angle, that is.

          Also I do wonder how broken that stuff is under X as the WM protocols that I remember definitely assumed axis-aligned monitor and windows.

      • Nilz@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        8·
        11 months ago

        They’ll end up spending more time arguing about it than implementing it

      • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.meEnglish
        7·
        11 months ago

        Technically that’s compositor level stuff, and it probably can even treat it like an actual diagonal display and prevent windows from going there and everything.

        This is a good example of why some of the protocols are taking so long. Once finalized, it’ll probably somehow also be capable of handling… that.

        With an accelerometer and a compositor written for that can probably even keep it level in real time. Tilt monitor and windows rotate to match automatically.