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
    333·
    6 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
        161·
        6 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·
          6 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
        10·
        6 months ago

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

      • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.meEnglish
        9·
        6 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.