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Could 2024 be the year of the diagonal linux desktop?

sprocketfox.io Linux is the only OS to support diagonal PC monitor mode — dev champions the case for 22-degree-rotation computing

2024 could be the year of the Linux diagonal desktop.

Thanks to @redcalcium@lemmy.institute for providing a better link. This post originally linked to tomshardware.

Hacker News @derp.foo Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

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This is basically an article promoting two Tweets (something like Toots, but on a monetized closed source for-profit platform run by a highly questionable billionaire).

Here:

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- Also "Ideal monitor rotation for programmers": https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2021/12/02/xrandr/
  
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  Jeez, that blog post is so much better than that article.
  
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  I highly recommend her blogs/fediverse posts, she does lots of cool things with computers and ham radio
  
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- "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
  
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- "What's stopping you from developing for diagonal mode?"
  
  Diagonal Mode
  
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  No, it's the lack of support in web APIs. Every api is based on width and height, viewport width, viewport height. Nothing allows you to find the angle of the display, rotate DOM elements to align, wrap based on diagonal boundaries etc.
  
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- Ackshually the social network you're mentioning has changed its name so instead of "Tweets" they should be "Xeets" (like sheets por shits if you prefer).
  
  !I love how people refuse to use its new name!<
  
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  I've opted for zitter personally
  
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  Spoilers don't work how they do on reddit, you need to type
  
  Text
  
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- I agree with Crab Man.
  
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It's amazing how something so innocuous can provoke such a viscerally disgusted reaction in me.

Technology was a mistake. It's time to return to the wilderness.

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- It was a mistake to come down from the trees if you ask me. These days there's even people saying we should of stayed in the water were life was simpler.
  
  Of course there's the total extremists who think life was better as a single celled microbe. Those people are always hard to talk to.
  
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  We should HAVE stayed in the water. The real fringe radicals are those who defend the idea that crystals are alive. I think they're lesser lifeforms who don't deserve social security
  
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Is it really 1st of April already

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- The time is flying fast this year...
  
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Two facts:

I love people doing weird things with tech.

I absolutely hate this.
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Thanks, I hate it!

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I'm just going to leave this here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

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This doesn't work on Wayland lol

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- Based, X forever staying relevant.
  
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  Time to update "Are we Wayland yet?" With this breaking lack of feature support.
  
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- Have you tried it? There is wlrandr, and at least according to how the command line looks, it could be supported.
  
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  Are you talking about wlr-randr? Because its --transform argument only accepts normal|90|180|270|flipped|flipped-90|flipped-180|flipped-270, not any transformation matrix. Maybe its just a limitation of the command line tool and it could be modified, I don't know, I haven't been too deep in the code or the protocol specifications. It also looks like it only works with wlroots based compositor.
  
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  Have you?
  
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- I mean, what does?
  
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I'd rather get three mid range 1440p monitors , stack two horizontal and the third over the two horizontals but offset. It would probably still cost less than one of those ultrawides.

Who am I kidding. My cheap ass would do neither.

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Mods, remove his balls

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Someone please tell me how to do this on Wayland. "c/unixporn, here I come!"

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No.

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I see their point, but they need to stop microdosing if they lack the self-control or memory to keep the walls from getting a bit runny.

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- I never knew people could microdose deliriants
  
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  Benadryl is basically that.
  
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Hell

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Redcalcium provided a much better link. I've edited my post accordingly.

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Thank God for betteridge's law of headlines

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Nope.

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I mean everyone can buy this, they only need money.

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- EDIT: Uh, this comment used to hold a reply to a completely different comment elsewhere. Disregard.
  
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Perfect, just what I need if I set my laptop on my laptop stand the wrong way!

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I want to stack 3 like that and be all kewl cyb3r-h4ckz0rz.

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All us ricers, assemble!

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Now I know what I will do when I hack a NSA/CIA computer! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

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I would constantly be turning my head, even though I wouldn't need to, if my monitor were rotated at a weird angle like that.

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If we need to start supporting diagonals, I'm quitting webdev for good

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