On Thu, 2015-12-17 at 08:40 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote: > On Wed, 2015-12-16 at 15:00 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > Wayland itself has rotation support, but GNOME provides no interface > > for it. I have this vague memory that I somehow managed to get a > > Wayland session to rotate its displays with xrandr somehow, but I've > > never managed to replicate that; apart from that one time (if it > > really > > happened...) > > This is not really factually true. > > The Wayland protocol does not have display configuration (ie the > equivalent to XRANDR). GNOME shell provides a D-Bus interface for > display configuration which is what drives the control-center display > panel, and that D-Bus interface does support rotation. > > The X11 implementation in mutter is translating it into XRANDR and does > support rotation. The Wayland implementation translates it into libdrm > calls, and does not support rotation yet. OK, I must've had it garbled. The result's the same, anyhow. > I could also quibble with the notion that "I happen to use a rotated > monitor on my system, so rotation is a test blocker", Well, feel free to quibble with that notion, but it's not what I said - I just said that it was a blocker for my daily use, because I'm not going to use non-rotated displays. I didn't say it was a "test blocker". -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
