Not sure I could ever live with that - anyone able to test if multi monitors works?

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    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.

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

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      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.

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      The Internet was and continues to be a mistake.

      Said a guy on the internet

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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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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

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      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

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

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

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      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.

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      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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        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