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Could 2024 be the year of the diagonal linux desktop? (sprocketfox.io)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Thanks to @[email protected] for providing a better link. This post originally linked to tomshardware.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (3 children)

This doesn't work on Wayland lol

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Based, X forever staying relevant.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Have you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

well expecting to use a tool made for X on Wayland is expecting a boat paddle to move a car.