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Curious from people who follow its development closely.

  • What protocol are about to be finally implemented?
  • Which ones are still a struggle?
  • How many serious protocols are there missing?

https://arewewaylandyet.com/

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

wayland doesn't support diagonal monitors

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

yeah it does it has from the start.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

is there compositor support? is there a way to get kde to rotate my monitor to a specific degree via cli?

keep in mind I have no idea if there are real use cases for diagonal monitors, I just duct taped an accelerometer to the back of my monitor and can only get it to rotate in 90 degree increments with kscreendoctor and thought it would be funny if the picture was just always upright

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If I remember correctly, the rotation in smaller degree increments could be used to correct some distortions on some really old CRTs that have scan lines that are skewed diagonally.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I don't think I even own a laptop that would work with a CRT nowadays.