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TIL - Linux supports tilted monitors... apparently 22° is best (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] rtxn 30 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Wayland devs, wake up and implement the features we truly need!

[–] rtxn 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah but, will antialiasing be noticeable?

[–] macrocephalic 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I actually think I'd notice quite quickly as all horizontal and vertical lines would be slightly jagged.

[–] Buddahriffic 3 points 11 months ago

Don't you run with at least 8xAA in the desktop??