Rotating Windows in Windows 11

Let's reach 2000 likes 💜 Have you ever rotated your windows in Windows? No? That's because you can't. Or, should I say, couldn't! It has been made possible now by a guy of the name "mindless#5145". Watch the video to find out how you could do this yourself!

0:00 - Intro
0:21 - #1 - The rotation API
0:45 - #2 - WindowRotator
4:02 - #3 - Icon rotation

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[sofiggy]

This is such a cool effect, I can imagine how much work was put into this one in post. Happy April Fools!

[𰻝]

According to the Microsoft Docs (The Desktop Window Manager):

"When the DWM is enabled, a window no longer draws directly to the display buffer. Instead, each window draws to an offscreen memory buffer, also called an _offscreen surface The DWM then composites these surfaces to the screen."

If DWM renders everything separately, then why would Microsoft go out of their way to somehow have the mouse cursor affected when it hovers over a rotated window? (since the window rotation is merely a visual effect)

[spacexplorer_]

This is actually impressive. How did you do this‽ (I know it's editing and other trickery, but how do you edit that well?)

[alexgravitos]

jokes aside, you can actually do this in Linux when running Wayland, specifically with Weston its Ctrl-Alt-titlebar drag. And you can set more precise angles, too.

[rubenverg]

that's some editing, can we get a behind the scenes like the other one you did with the easter eggs?

[kmcwiys]

i was legit freaking out for the entire video, what a good april fools edit you actually convinced me that was great

[Jakek]

This kinda reminds me of my middle school days, flipping the whole screen upside down with some key combination and making the teachers (who barely understood computers) panic.

[jbk]

Amazingly done, and at first, I actually believed it to be true because of the docs page! Impressive April fools video!

This is legitimately possible in Linux.
With X11 there's the Compiz plugin FreeWindows that allows both 2D and 3D rotation. I don't think mouse clicks get transformed to match up with the rotation, however.
With Wayland using Weston, hold Super (the Windows key) and middle mouse drag the titlebar. :)

[𰻝]

This video would've been more realistic if the mouse cursor didn't change, since DWM renders stuff (like windows and the cursor) separately, then composites everything on-screen

[ArtyomR_]

I'm amazed how FlyTech managed to masterfully expose imperfection of editing for the bugs of the "new api". I believed until the last!

[clementpruvost]

I remember in when I was at primary school, we rotated the whole screen with CTRL+arrows and we were laughing.

[anamoyeee]

If i didn't get rickrolled 10 times today i would've believed lol

[ThatLinuxDude]

I mean, technically this *is* possible... on that one Longhorn build where DCE could do window rotation if I recall correctly.

[Manny]

there's a chrome os shortcut to this:
Ctrl+alt+shift+refresh NOTE: this does a Barrell roll, you can flip the whole screen by removing the alt

[Blade]

I didnt realise until 1:11 that this was an april fools prank.


lets just say I got Rickrolled.

[RoseElias]

@FlyTech Videos 3:01 look at the taskbar!

[MSDOSMemes]

Refrences:
The Discord tag is actually hinting at you, that doesn't know its April fools. "mindless".
The function "DwmRotateWindow" actually doesn't exist, it's inspect element.

[notdreppyalt]

Ok you got me so good you “convinced” me into thinking April fools doesn’t exist.

[FrancescoRosiYTP]

2:56 "it vanishes into an invisibile wall" aka the purple rectangle I edited in there LMAO