GNOME's Mutter Now Supports Screen Rotation On Wayland

[blackout23]

We do? <3 generalisations - but for me - landscape is much nicer to use

I think most people who have portrait mode monitors usually have a landscape monitor next to it. For code portrait mode is really nice.

[zman0900]

I wonder if the rotated screens are actually able to use vsync? My rotated screens in gnome X cannot, and it can be annoying at times.

[Zan Lynx]

I wonder if the rotated screens are actually able to use vsync? My rotated screens in gnome X cannot, and it can be annoying at times.

There shouldn't be any technical reasons for vsync to fail. A screen update is a screen update after all.

A quick Google search shows a lot of reports for portrait vsync problems in Linux but none at all in Windows so it is probably just a problem with X.

[Zan Lynx]

Awesome! Considering that Fedora is popular with developers and developers like monitors in portrait mode this is a great feature. Hope primary selection is next.

I use Fedora and I have a monitor which I sometimes use in portrait. I haven't lately because when I do the Intel video driver will crash X about 50% of the time because of a lack of video RAM. The 4K laptop screen and the 4K monitor in portrait causes it to try allocating a (3840+2160) x (3840+2160) display buffer. I can make it work better by rearranging the displays but then it's awkward to use.

Wayland might handle this better. I'll be glad to find out.

[boxie]

I think most people who have portrait mode monitors usually have a landscape monitor next to it. For code portrait mode is really nice.

I always found the there was not enough width in portrait mode. Most tools I used are optimised for landscape too

[lkraav]

This feature seems to properly landing only in Gnome 3.22 earliest. Source: gnome bug discussion mentioned in the article.