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    [–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 28 points 10 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 14 points 10 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 10 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 3 points 10 months ago

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

    [–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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