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
      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.