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[-] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 152 points 2 days ago

Why have many monitor when few monitor do trick?

PXL_20211202_035205492

[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 52 points 2 days ago

Finally a screen wide enough to display a single error in Java.

[-] EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

oh dear jesus ... this sent me on a spin

[-] ConstructiveVandalism@piefed.zip 21 points 2 days ago

This is so wrong and right on the same time! 

[-] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago

29º represent!

[-] mech@feddit.org 8 points 2 days ago

Wayland isn't ready until it can do that!

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago

It actually can.
No extra protocol should be required for it.

Just needs someone to implement it in their compositor.

[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago

Is there any use to having a DMM with a screen that large? (Off topic, but the o-scope caught my eye then the 'mini o-scope')

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 77 points 2 days ago

I literally cannot conceive of a more efficient arrangement of 17 monitors

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

As long as the monitors and space are squares and all monitors have the same side length

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

And the side of the space for monitors isn't an integer multiple of the monitor side.

[-] craigers@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago
[-] Ratio_Tile@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago

Where can I buy this

[-] drmoodmood@lemmy.ml 34 points 2 days ago

Would Lemmy on Firefox look like this on the diagonal screens?

[-] ViaGetty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days ago

This slaps though! Where are all the diamond monitors at??

[-] quantumcrop@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago

Step 1: Buy This

Step 2: Rotate 45 degrees

Step 3: Idk

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

Hmm, that is kind of cool, in that you can have text on all 4 sides and it's still generally readable. Not really possible for vertical panels...

[-] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

But it reduces the usable space in the middle, as any rectilinearly-designed webpages will have areas on the far left and right that aren't viewable except in small parts while scrolling.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Oh yeah, I was kind of playing devil's advocate. It is certainly also cursed in many ways...

[-] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 52 points 2 days ago

Where are you getting so many 1:1 monitors?

[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 39 points 2 days ago

Ideal aspect ratio for sudoku

[-] witty_username@feddit.nl 23 points 2 days ago

Thanks now someone must redo the optimisation for 16:9 blocks

[-] lemmyartistforhire@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Here you go. 22 16:9 monitors.

I chose 22 monitors, because all other numbers have very expected results:

spoiler17 monitors:

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

So what's that gap for?
You can clearly either fit a few more, or make the total area smaller.

[-] lemmyartistforhire@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You are right, actually. I blindly trusted the computer to figure this one out, but just looking at it I found a better solution by hand. Maybe there really are some better solutions for the 22 monitors problem.

spoiler

This better not end up in any scientific papers, ever.

To answer your question: fitting more monitors into these gaps would not result in the optimal placement for that amount of monitors. 23, 24, and 25 monitors all have "expected" results. And closing the remaining gap would not result in a smaller bounding box square.

[-] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2021/12/02/xrandr/

Edit: someone already posted it somewhere is in the thread lmao

where can I get square monitors?

[-] Zorque@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Bolt cutters should work, no?

an angle grinder might be a better tool for the job

[-] Venat0r@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

you could get the type that's used for large led/micro led displays: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBd7_uxrq6c

[-] UxyIVrljPeRl@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

16 should be rotated 37 degree to the left

[-] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Who are you to think you know better than the computer that came up with this

[-] UxyIVrljPeRl@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Well my Machine always believes Displays have to be overlapping

[-] ulterno@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago

Make sure to implement the arbitrary angles in your Wayland compositor.

[-] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

arbitrary angles

You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I cannot even conceive of how angles not based on 90° increments would render various things without issues. Or why you'd want that.

[-] Zangoose@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

X11 already supports this lol

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

X11 supporting it likely doesn't mean that all software would support it flawlessly. What about Wayland?

[-] Zangoose@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I mean I don't see any reason why a Wayland compositor couldn't support it, it's pretty cursed either way though.

There's a screenshot in one of the other comments in this thread (from owenfromcanda, I think the other screenshots are fake)

[-] psoul@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Also the table layout at my local Chinese restaurant

this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2026
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