TIL - Linux supports tilted monitors... apparently 22° is best - eviltoast
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·
      10 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·
        10 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·
      10 months ago

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

    • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.meEnglish
      9·
      10 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.