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

  • casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I swear to fucking Stallman, this is at least the fourth time this past week I’ve seen a unique post about this same fucking shit. One dude writes an article going “xrandr let’s you rotate the screen 22 degrees” and the holiday tech news cycle just loses its mind.

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    You know how when your coworker leaves their desk and forgets to lock their computer, you change their desktop wallpaper to Oompa Loompas or whatever?

    This is the new that.

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      How fine is the resolution of the tilt? I wonder how long it would take to figure out that your display was tilted by 1 degree or less.

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        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.

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            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.

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              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.

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            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.

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      it always used to be using the windows command to rotate the screen, this will just add a new layer of confusion.

      …or as they are using linux it will probably be seen as a good challenge

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    Earth’s axial tilt is 23.5°, COINCIDENCE? I DON’T THINK SO!!!

    Seriously though, I’d be tempted to set it to 23.5° as a gag and tell everyone “Well, for full accuracy, you have to correct for the Earth’s axial tilt…”

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    1 year ago

    Meh, screen angle is constant. Not impressed until it supports screens with a constant angular velocity.

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    This way if you align your monitor with the rotational axis of the Earth, the image appears to sit still in space.

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      It would be interesting to have an app that tilted your screen to see what it would look like from other places on the globe. I’m sometimes curious about the angle offset I have with various other parts of the world.

      Though you’d need to be able to rotate in two dimensions to properly capture the differences on a globe. It might be able to, if it’s rendering the desktop to a 3d surface and applying the rotation to that.

      Actually, even cooler would be to have an actuator that would physically rotate the monitor around all 3 axii instead of rotating what it displays.

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    I once used a vertical monitor at work and people thought it was wild. A tilted monitor would cause a full blown riot at my job, and I don’t want blood in my hands.