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minus-squareTurboWafflzlinkfedilink31•6 months agoYou know how sometimes old documents would reuse paper by turning it sideways and writing perpendicularly on top of the old writing? Let’s make a window manager that does that, overlap the contents of all your windows at different angles
minus-square@dukklink15•6 months agoIt’s surprisingly possible (and easy) too… a little bit of tinkering with X11’s compositor API would probably do the trick. IDK about Wayland tho :/
minus-square𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍linkfedilink5•6 months agoYou could do it in Wayland, too, it’s just that every single Wayland app would have to re-implement the rotation and rendering themselves.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish13•6 months agoWayfire seems perfectly capable of rotating apps without them being aware of it
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•edit-26 months agoIt could tilt them out of the viewport, leaving just a corner in, like weird minimizing
You know how sometimes old documents would reuse paper by turning it sideways and writing perpendicularly on top of the old writing? Let’s make a window manager that does that, overlap the contents of all your windows at different angles
It’s surprisingly possible (and easy) too… a little bit of tinkering with X11’s compositor API would probably do the trick.
IDK about Wayland tho :/
You could do it in Wayland, too, it’s just that every single Wayland app would have to re-implement the rotation and rendering themselves.
Wayfire seems perfectly capable of rotating apps without them being aware of it
It could tilt them out of the viewport, leaving just a corner in, like weird minimizing