News Linux is the only OS to support diagonal PC monitor mode — dev champions the case for 22-degree-rotation computing

[Admin]

A Linux developer has eschewed boring traditional landscape and portrait monitor orientations and is championing diagonal modes, with 22 degrees claimed to be the sweet spot.

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[peachpuff]

Is it April 1st already?

 

[bit_user]

Is it April 1st already?

My thoughts, exactly.

For things like flight sims, I can see how you might want some monitors to be off-angle, but the suggestion that it's remotely suitable for development is just someone having a laugh.

 

[toffty]

Is this a sign of bloatware coming to Linux?

 

[pixelpusher220]

My thoughts, exactly.

For things like flight sims, I can see how you might want some monitors to be off-angle, but the suggestion that it's remotely suitable for development is just someone having a laugh.

One thing I would like (and maybe it exists?) is the ability of a monitor to sense it's orientation and switch between portrait and landscape

 

[TerryLaze]

The way it is shown in the pic it makes some mild sense, if you only have one monitor and want to have your ide open and still see what and how your code is changing things, this gives you the most screen real estate possible.

But then again 1080p monitors are so cheap that it still doesn't make sense.
Maybe for the three people that have space issues...

 

[USAFRet]

" “So this here, I think, is the best monitor orientation for software development,” the developer commented."

You are high.

 

[bit_user]

Is this a sign of bloatware coming to Linux?

My guess is that the window manager simply implemented multiple-orientation support as a generic 2D or 3D transform. Someone noticed that and decided to have a bit of fun.

An advantage of using such a generic approach is that it's trivial to make the monitor mirror-backwards, which could actually have some practical applications.

 

[vanadiel007]

I want 29 degrees, much better.

 

[cryoburner]

My thoughts, exactly.

For things like flight sims, I can see how you might want some monitors to be off-angle, but the suggestion that it's remotely suitable for development is just someone having a laugh.

Yeah, I kind of think this may have been intended as a joke about a mostly-useless feature. Having big diagonal sections of your application windows lopped off while there's simultaneously lots of unusable wasted space showing the desktop background is not likely going to be particularly good for productivity. Sure, you might be able to slightly increase the maximum line length visible on a single screen at once, but only for a few lines, with the rest being considerably shorter. Measuring the main application window in that photo, it's only a little over 2% wider than what could have fit in the standard orientation. And if they were really concerned about making space for things like a browser window, they could have just set it to be always-on-top over the bottom right corner of the application that's been cut off here. Or add a second smaller monitor for that purpose. Also, this appears to be a curved monitor, with the curve of the screen now running along a diagonal line. >_>

 

[thisisaname]

A classic example of a solution looking for a problem to solve.

 

[Sippincider]

“It provides the longest line lengths and no longer need to worry about that pesky 80-column limit.”

I'll venture that if your code is rambling on, on an often enough basis, so much that you need your monitor at an angle to read it... you're probably doing something wrong.

 

[pixelpusher220]

I'll venture that if your code is rambling on, on an often enough basis, so much that you need your monitor at an angle to read it... you're probably doing something wrong.

v2.0 of the if it was hard to write it should be hard to read stupidity?

Can you imagine taking a new job and they start showing you how to diagonal your monitor? "dunno, last guy set up that way"

lol

 

[coromonadalix]

geez take 2x 32 inch screen and rotate them upside loll nuf space ?

or some dome with you inside in the middle an 270 degree view ?

 

[Amdlova]

Can we have a circle screen wanna see a full picture of pizza on the wall

 

[vehekos]

Non portable solution.
Try to read that code in a laptop, or somebody else's computer.

 

[troetbot]

Can the rotation be set in real time, maybe using a position sensor or an external source (eg via art-net/sacn, rs232/485 or even midi)
I am an event tech/lights engineer and I just got some ideas...

 

[USAFRet]

Can the rotation be set in real time, maybe using a position sensor or an external source (eg via art-net/sacn, rs232/485 or even midi)
I am an event tech/lights engineer and I just got some ideas...

If you look online, there are multiple Pi and arudino examples to do exactly that.

Nothing out of the box, though.

 

[bit_user]

Can the rotation be set in real time, maybe using a position sensor or an external source (eg via art-net/sacn, rs232/485 or even midi)
I am an event tech/lights engineer and I just got some ideas...

I wouldn't assume it updates in realtime, but maybe?

Some of the desktop environments have these "transition effects", when you switch between windows or virtual desktops. They texture-map the content onto a 3D surface and do something with it.

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If you looked into how that's done, perhaps you could make your own effect that's controlled by a sensor.

 

[Findecanor]

2021:

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[ezst036]

A classic example of a solution looking for a problem to solve.

I was thinking the same thing.

However this does once again highlight the flexibility of open source that can't be matched by any other OS. Apparently he needs it.

 

[lordmogul]

The simple reason why other systems only support 90° rotation is that screens are built for 90° angles.

And modern flatscreens are worse than that than CRTs. Instead of a somewhat flexible mask they have square pixels. The same reason we don't have round or triangular or hexagonal screens.

 

[expunged]

Another instance of a bug becoming an "undocumented feature"

 

[ttquantia]

Weird problem to solve.

Instead of using these monitors with an impractically wide aspect ratio, why not get a monitor that is equally wide but taller? Of two monitors with physically the same width and equal number of pixels, the one that is taller and has more pixels in the Y direction is obviously much better.
And, additionally, you don't need to tilt your display 22 degrees.

 

[vermaden]

Its just another Xorg/X11 feature that overrated Wayland does not have.

It works the same on FreeBSD and Illumos - its not limited to Linux in any way.

Below example from my vermaden.wordpress.com/freebsd-desktop setup.

... and also a 'regular' shot.

Regards,
vermaden