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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] 216 points 2 years ago

This is one of those jokes that will absolutely spark a trend where in a few months Asus will have a diagonal monitor for sale and there will be videos and articles about how life changing it is.

The Internet was and continues to be a mistake.

[-] [email protected] 68 points 2 years ago

I'm still waiting for hexagon monitors as they are clearly the bestagon.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago

I thought this was an Onion article a few wks ago

[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago

It all comes from a blog post from 2021. A picture from it went viral on X/Twitter a week ago. (First two links in the article) Since then everyone is posting it.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

I can't obviously see it there, I do think its a bit stupid, but I would have thought that Toms Hardware wouldn't have bitten the onion? Or have they gone downhill that far?

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

They've gone down that far... Lol

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I could totally see using this as a display wall. *Kyle in a bunch of them as a store display or a small display.

*When you ask for tile and google gives you Kyle.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Damnit Kyle!!

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[-] [email protected] 129 points 2 years 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.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago
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[-] [email protected] 96 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 years 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.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years 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.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years 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.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Windows command to rotate the screen, screenshot the desktop, set it as wallpaper, hide the icons & start bar... Functionally reversed mouse, and can't click anything.

[-] [email protected] 82 points 2 years ago

We just need round monitors so the dimensions don't change when rotating the display.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago

And a gyroscope to rotate the image so it doesn't rotate when rotating the display.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

I can't even get my second screen to turn on with Linux mint.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

Really my triple monitor set up works without a hitch

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I think it's a weird compatibility issue with my r9 380, it works on windows and shows up in xrandr just constant no signal.

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Make it spin at 3600rpm to simulate a circular surface

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

With a high enough spin rate, it'd be like having a much larger monitor.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Alt-Azmuth mount

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

And my teachers said not to write all my Python in one line.

[for x in range(x: lambda: [while y < z class foo(x: int...

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

requires xrandr

Cries in wayland...

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Iirc Wayland as a protocol supports rotation of Window surfaces. I'm not sure if any of the compositors have exposed it as an option. Maybe Weston

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Wayfire has a plugin to rotate windows.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Would be interesting to see a gui that maximizes the content based on rotation if that were even possible

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

No thanks, I need this as much as I need a VR desktop

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Why would I need a Dutch angle monitor?

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

For correcting Dutch Angle video... Obviously.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Make a monitor that corrects video tilt in real-time while watching episodes of Star Trek.

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

The single use case I can think of are isometric games.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

The use case I see is screens mounted on something that moves.

It's easy with accelerometers to know the orientation, so you can display things on something that in its whole or has parts that move in an additive way.

Imagine an movie screening with the screen mounted on a float in the ocean.

The float moves with the waves. You can stabilize the image of the movie to be still while the screen itself tilts.

Something like this, but then with a direct screen instead of a projected one.

Another use case would be applying this to smartwatches or other displays like that.

You could make the output of the screen always be perfectly aligned with your line of sight rather than have it tilted at an angle parallel with your arm.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

My god how many people are going to post this?

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