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This is basically an article promoting two Tweets (something like Toots, but on a monetized closed source for-profit platform run by a highly questionable billionaire).

Here:

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Also “Ideal monitor rotation for programmers”: https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2021/12/02/xrandr/

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Jeez, that blog post is so much better than that article.

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Wholeheartedly agree. I’ve edited the OP accordingly.

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I highly recommend her blogs/fediverse posts, she does lots of cool things with computers and ham radio

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“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”

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“What’s stopping you from developing for diagonal mode?”

Diagonal Mode

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No, it’s the lack of support in web APIs. Every api is based on width and height, viewport width, viewport height. Nothing allows you to find the angle of the display, rotate DOM elements to align, wrap based on diagonal boundaries etc.

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Ackshually the social network you’re mentioning has changed its name so instead of “Tweets” they should be “Xeets” (like sheets por shits if you prefer).

!I love how people refuse to use its new name!<

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Spoilers don’t work how they do on reddit, you need to type

::: spoiler
Text
:::

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I’ve opted for zitter personally

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47 points

Is it really 1st of April already

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The time is flying fast this year…

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No.

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This doesn’t work on Wayland lol

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Based, X forever staying relevant.

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Time to update “Are we Wayland yet?” With this breaking lack of feature support.

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Have you tried it? There is wlrandr, and at least according to how the command line looks, it could be supported.

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Have you?

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Are you talking about wlr-randr? Because its --transform argument only accepts normal|90|180|270|flipped|flipped-90|flipped-180|flipped-270, not any transformation matrix. Maybe its just a limitation of the command line tool and it could be modified, I don’t know, I haven’t been too deep in the code or the protocol specifications. It also looks like it only works with wlroots based compositor.

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