Twitter post by Daniel Feldman (@d_feldman): Linux is the only major operating system to support diagonal mode (credit [Twitter] @xssfox). Image shows an untrawide monitor rotated about 45 degrees, with a horizontal IDE window taking up a bottom triangle. A web browser and settings menu above it are organized creating a window shape almost like a stepped pyramid.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 151 points 11 months ago (1 children)

BRB, sticking microcontrollers to the back of my monitors so I can use their accelerometers to report the orientations in real time...

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 68 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I would love it so much if xrandr was able to keep up with that and didn't blink for 3 seconds every time you changed orientation

[–] baduhai@sopuli.xyz 17 points 11 months ago

Maybe a custom Wayland compositor could keep up