TIL - Linux supports tilted monitors... apparently 22° is best
2024 could be the year of the Linux diagonal desktop.
Not sure I could ever live with that - anyone able to test if multi monitors works?
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.
I'm still waiting for hexagon monitors as they are clearly the bestagon.
I thought this was an Onion article a few wks 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.
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.
Damnit Kyle!!
Wasn't this how the Morbius sequel was memed into existence
Triangular monitors with 22 degree corners
But will it automatically adjust with an internal gyroscope?
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.
lets* you rotate
d'oh, thanks
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.
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
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..."
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.
I can't even get my second screen to turn on with Linux mint.
Really my triple monitor set up works without a hitch
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.
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
It would be interesting to have an app that tilted your screen to see what it would look like from other places on the globe. I'm sometimes curious about the angle offset I have with various other parts of the world.
Though you'd need to be able to rotate in two dimensions to properly capture the differences on a globe. It might be able to, if it's rendering the desktop to a 3d surface and applying the rotation to that.
Actually, even cooler would be to have an actuator that would physically rotate the monitor around all 3 axii instead of rotating what it displays.
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.
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...
"is the best" says like one guy. This looks like a nightmare to use TBH.
** for one very specific version of "best"
Would be interesting to see a gui that maximizes the content based on rotation if that were even possible
No thanks, I need this as much as I need a VR desktop
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.
I think most people would just use media server software like pixera, d3, touchdesigner etc to accomplish playback of video on a moving surface with feedback sensors.
It's established tech, plenty of integrations, and most companies that are able to deliver something like this aren't a linux-first type of company.
If it was for an installation, something bespoke might be made using Linux. But the cost of touchdesigner and a suitable computer are tiny compared to doing this using Linux and then supporting and documenting it (especially considering how widespread skills in touchdesigner/pixera/d3 are in the industry Vs more esoteric Linux skills)
Knowing how big Linux is in embedded systems I almost wonder if it was originally implemented for some kind of full-motion simulator since that could easily call for very funky display mounting
My god how many people are going to post this?
I once used a vertical monitor at work and people thought it was wild. A tilted monitor would cause a full blown riot at my job, and I don't want blood in my hands.
*for developers. Because it can fit longer lines of code. Also, it was meant as a joke, for the other comment here.
