iopq@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 10 months agoI use a WM btwlemmy.worldimagemessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1505arrow-down123
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minus-squareTurboWafflz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up31·10 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-squaredukk@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·10 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-square𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·10 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-squareAVincentInSpace@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·10 months agoWayfire seems perfectly capable of rotating apps without them being aware of it
minus-squarelurch (he/him)linkfedilinkarrow-up7·edit-210 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