On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 4:00 PM, Adam Williamson adamwill@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Wed, 2015-12-16 at 15:36 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Adam Williamson adamwill@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Wed, 2015-12-09 at 05:39 -0500, Kamil Paral wrote:
- Display rotation support
- Not needed from the beginning, but quite a few people will probably miss it.
For whatever it's worth, this is a showstopper for me on my main test box (this one); I just can't run Wayland on it until this is fixed. So I'll be running with X11 until this is done, regardless of what's the default.
What is meant by display rotation support? Changing from portrait to landscape without a reboot? Or does it mean portrait isn't supported at all? For me, I use a laptop without external attached sometimes and can do some Wayland testing. But mostly I connect to a display rotated to portrait orientation. I don't tend to rotate it landscape though.
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...) I haven't found any way to rotate the display from a GNOME-on-Wayland session in Fedora. Wayland doesn't really have the concept of server-level configuration like X, there's no xorg.conf you can go to and configure rotation the way you can with X; AIUI, in the Wayland world, that's supposed to happen at the compositor/desktop level.
Hmmm well if the display isn't fakaked, which is actually surprisingly infrequent (i.e. it is fakaked), via EDID it should inform the OS (if it asks) what the orientation is so the OS can just do the right thing. I have a display in a box about 20 feet away that does the right thing. Maybe....hmmm....MAYbE I should get it outta the box? And I don't know, test it? Egads. I know it works on X, but ONLY with the discrete GPU. Integrated GPU, no go.