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[–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 31 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] dukk@programming.dev 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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 :/

[–] sxan@midwest.social 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 13 points 8 months ago

Wayfire seems perfectly capable of rotating apps without them being aware of it

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It could tilt them out of the viewport, leaving just a corner in, like weird minimizing