Linux is the only OS to support diagonal PC monitor mode — dev champions the case for 22-degree-rotation computing::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.
ITT no one seems to realize it’s a joke.
It’s a custom mode for people developing Angular.
Screen orientation is no laughing matter!
Back in my day there were just two orientations. All these variations are…unnatural. Your screen came out of the box in landscape or portrait, and I don’t believe in any of this “diagonal” nonsense.
The original blog post (significantly more informative and shorter than the article): https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2021/12/02/xrandr/
Oh shit xssfox! She once blasted my code on Twitter 🤣
I tried this but all my icons kept tumbling to the bottom-left.
It’s pretty cool to have that as an option, but good lord it looks annoying to use that monitor arrangement.
You say that now, but just imagine you’ve slept wrong and kinked your neck but still have to get things done. Now you can set the display to 22 degree rotation but leave the monitor horizontal. Voila, the day is saved!
What’s the over/under on someone hooking an Arduino to an accelerometer on top of a monitor to automatically keep the display level? One week?
You’re looking at it wrong. You don’t want to attach the gyroscope to the monitor, you want to attach it to your head
Dual monitor in diagonal mode to get a perfect diamond orientation!
…I’m sure there’s some arcade game that plays on some awkward display that’s designed to be a diamond or even diagonal…
Well, arcade machines used CRT displays. Not sure someone was crazy enough to build cabinets in which you’d have to rig those heavy bastards so they rest on a corner.
Point the CRT upwards at a series of mirrors which display on a diagonal screen! Lmao
Now make the mirrors controllable and let the game do crazy optic full screen rotations, panning and zooming.
I’m starting to feel like this headline is some sort of psy-op.
no longer need to worry about that pesky 80-column limit
Um… What? Even a 13" laptop fits more than three times that many characters.
It’s a text mode joke
Are you judging my orientation?
LGBTQIA+!=/90
Edit: maybe LGBTQIA+mod90!=0 is better
I like the monitor to be turned in such a creative way, but why have they turned the windows and the text back to the boring old horizontal/vertical?
:-)
I’m not sure how joking you are, but of course, that can be achieved by using a horizontal resolution and just angling the monitor diagonally
Always as much as possible. What else is there.
Mixed dpi, multi monitor support when?
Can we now have a 22 degree desk?
Get me a second, horizontal screen in front of it and it might just be a moiré!
The developer has given up on “boring” straight monitors… Yeah ok. :)
Have fun with screen tearing
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