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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.
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.
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.
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.
Wayland devs, wake up and implement the features we truly need!
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.
They'll end up spending more time arguing about it than implementing it
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.
I actually think I'd notice quite quickly as all horizontal and vertical lines would be slightly jagged.
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
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.
I just aliased cd to eject the disk drive.
My cupholder just went away!
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..."
Keep in mind that the planet rotates, so the angle between the ecliptic and the screen has to be recalculated periodically with a cron job.
Should be easy to automate it completely with an arduino and a stepper motor.
Alright you crazy bastards. Go and make this a thing.
turns on display
There is a swirl displayed
Display starts spinning
"You're getting sleepy..."
Don't give governments any more ideas.
Make it and then sell it to my wife to give to me for a gag gift next Christmas.
Her budget for such a thing would probably be ~$100 if you need a target price point.
We just need round monitors so the dimensions don't change when rotating the display.
And a gyroscope to rotate the image so it doesn't rotate when rotating the display.
Meh, screen angle is constant. Not impressed until it supports screens with a constant angular velocity.
Make it spin at 3600rpm to simulate a circular surface
With a high enough spin rate, it'd be like having a much larger monitor.
This way if you align your monitor with the rotational axis of the Earth, the image appears to sit still in space.
Alt-Azmuth mount
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...
requires xrandr
Cries in wayland...
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
Wayfire has a plugin to rotate windows.
Would be interesting to see a gui that maximizes the content based on rotation if that were even possible
Why would I need a Dutch angle monitor?
For correcting Dutch Angle video... Obviously.
Make a monitor that corrects video tilt in real-time while watching episodes of Star Trek.
The single use case I can think of are isometric games.
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.