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.
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 can’t obviously see it there, I do think its a bit stupid, but I would have thought that Toms Hardware wouldn’t have bitten the onion? Or have they gone downhill that far?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…”
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.
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.
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 can’t obviously see it there, I do think its a bit stupid, but I would have thought that Toms Hardware wouldn’t have bitten the onion? Or have they gone downhill that far?
They’ve gone down that far… Lol
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!!
“our market research shows an increased in interest in 22* displays in the last quarter”
Wasn’t this how the Morbius sequel was memed into existence
Triangular monitors with 22 degree corners
Said a guy on the internet
I know what I said. I said it.
You have to see the irony in the statement though…
Explain it to me
You are on the internet, saying internet was and is a mistake. Just found it funny is all. Sorry I bothered you with my comment.
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.
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.
Very fine, as long as the computer uses X (the
goodless shitty one).xrandrcan 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.
Doesn’t need a protocol, just compositor support. Unless you want windows to be aware of being rendered at an angle, that is.
Also I do wonder how broken that stuff is under X as the WM protocols that I remember definitely assumed axis-aligned monitor and windows.
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.
Yeah but, will antialiasing be noticeable?
I actually think I’d notice quite quickly as all horizontal and vertical lines would be slightly jagged.
Don’t you run with at least 8xAA in the desktop??
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
cdto eject the disk drive.My cupholder just went away!
Old school.
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.
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.
For this I would use a servo, not a stepper.
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.
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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.
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…
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.
Or a Rick Mercer rant (that is a very specifically Canadian use though)
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.
My god how many people are going to post this?
*for developers. Because it can fit longer lines of code. Also, it was meant as a joke, for the other comment here.