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My 2020 desk setup

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Re: My 2020 desk setup

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Post by zeven7 »

StavrosK wrote: post #33
lmilcin wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except you have huge monitor and you lay stuff in multiple side by side windows which makes the whole argument very moot. And when you use laptop you are kind of forced to use single screen because multiple screens is inconvenient at best. When I started development 15" monitors were standard and 17" were a luxury. Setting multiple monitors was a must or you would have to constantly switch between editor, terminal an…

I have three monitors, but I only use one (a 24" one, the second is for when I want to watch some show or movie while doing stuff on the main one, and the third I basically never use). I have my apps always maximized/fullscreen in the main monitor and I alt-tab between them. I never could get into having multiple apps on-screen at the same time, since I can only focus on one. Writing this comment, though, I realize t…

A better alt+tab switcher would be great! Why isn't that a thing? I'm imagining something where you could use alt+f1, alt+f2, alt+f3, etc. to switch to specific windows rather than just rotating between everything.

Re: My 2020 desk setup

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Post by meagher »

StavrosK wrote: post #33
lmilcin wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except you have huge monitor and you lay stuff in multiple side by side windows which makes the whole argument very moot. And when you use laptop you are kind of forced to use single screen because multiple screens is inconvenient at best. When I started development 15" monitors were standard and 17" were a luxury. Setting multiple monitors was a must or you would have to constantly switch between editor, terminal an…

I have three monitors, but I only use one (a 24" one, the second is for when I want to watch some show or movie while doing stuff on the main one, and the third I basically never use). I have my apps always maximized/fullscreen in the main monitor and I alt-tab between them. I never could get into having multiple apps on-screen at the same time, since I can only focus on one. Writing this comment, though, I realize t…

If you’re on macOS https://contexts.co/

Re: My 2020 desk setup

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Post by StavrosK »

zeven7 wrote: post #71
StavrosK wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have three monitors, but I only use one (a 24" one, the second is for when I want to watch some show or movie while doing stuff on the main one, and the third I basically never use). I have my apps always maximized/fullscreen in the main monitor and I alt-tab between them. I never could get into having multiple apps on-screen at the same time, since I can only focus on one. Writing this comment, though, I realize t…

A better alt+tab switcher would be great! Why isn't that a thing? I'm imagining something where you could use alt+f1, alt+f2, alt+f3, etc. to switch to specific windows rather than just rotating between everything.

Yes, exactly! Or just a saner way of sorting the tab order would be nice. I'll look and see if there's one for Linux, there must be something...

Re: My 2020 desk setup

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Post by StavrosK »

meagher wrote: post #72
StavrosK wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have three monitors, but I only use one (a 24" one, the second is for when I want to watch some show or movie while doing stuff on the main one, and the third I basically never use). I have my apps always maximized/fullscreen in the main monitor and I alt-tab between them. I never could get into having multiple apps on-screen at the same time, since I can only focus on one. Writing this comment, though, I realize t…

If you’re on macOS https://contexts.co/

Thank you! That looks very nice, unfortunately I'm on Linux, but something like that is bound to exist.

Re: My 2020 desk setup

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Post by layer8 »

zeven7 wrote: post #71
StavrosK wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have three monitors, but I only use one (a 24" one, the second is for when I want to watch some show or movie while doing stuff on the main one, and the third I basically never use). I have my apps always maximized/fullscreen in the main monitor and I alt-tab between them. I never could get into having multiple apps on-screen at the same time, since I can only focus on one. Writing this comment, though, I realize t…

A better alt+tab switcher would be great! Why isn't that a thing? I'm imagining something where you could use alt+f1, alt+f2, alt+f3, etc. to switch to specific windows rather than just rotating between everything.

On Windows, you can effectively use Win+1-9 for that by pinning the applications to the taskbar. I use that all the time.

Re: My 2020 desk setup

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Post by akvadrako »

whatever1 wrote: post #61
akvadrako wrote: post #59

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This is just wrong. PCs work fine with 5K 27" displays like the LG Ultrafine 27MD5KA. Personally, I prefer the 5K2K 34" screens though like LG 34WK95U or MSI Prestige PS341WU.

LG does not support non apple software/hardware for that monitor. You can hack your PC with TB cards and special motherboards that support these cards to show signal, sometimes. This is far away from "works fine".

Probably just because it's older.

Newer 5K displays like the two I mentioned (including LG) do support Windows. You don't need any hacks as long as you have TB3 support.

There is also the ProLite XB2779QQS-S1 and Planar IX2790 if you want full 5K at 27".

Re: My 2020 desk setup

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Post by lmilcin »

zeven7 wrote: post #71
StavrosK wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have three monitors, but I only use one (a 24" one, the second is for when I want to watch some show or movie while doing stuff on the main one, and the third I basically never use). I have my apps always maximized/fullscreen in the main monitor and I alt-tab between them. I never could get into having multiple apps on-screen at the same time, since I can only focus on one. Writing this comment, though, I realize t…

A better alt+tab switcher would be great! Why isn't that a thing? I'm imagining something where you could use alt+f1, alt+f2, alt+f3, etc. to switch to specific windows rather than just rotating between everything.

Long time ago I made a python script to manage my 2-monitor i3 setup.

The idea was to be able to quickly select things to be made visible on both monitors.

The two monitors are named primary and secondary.

To select something to be visible on primary you would press the combination (for example alt+f1) and the selected desktop would be placed on primary. Whatever was on primary would be pushed to secondary.

To select both primary and secondary you would first press what you want on secondary and then what you want on primary.

The idea is that people typically have what I call "scenes". Scene is particular arrangement of windows on both monitors.

This means that you can quickly learn your "scenes" and get them to be visible very quickly, in a fraction of a second, without having to hard-code the scene in your config file.

Re: My 2020 desk setup

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Post by rsync »

bluedino wrote: post #11

8K monitor sounded ridiculous until I realized that's basically Retina @ 32-34"

I'm curious - as a user of a triple-monitor desktop setup - is there a single video card that can drive 3 of these Dell 8k monitors he uses ?

I don't need high performance or gaming or 3D, just full resolution at 60hz - as he is using his - but three of them ...

Re: My 2020 desk setup

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Post by bloopernova »

mech422 wrote: post #38
illuminated wrote: post #6

"I found that using only one monitor allows me to focus more on what I’m doing, and I don’t miss anything about a multi-monitor setup." This. I had the same realization maybe 7 or 8 years ago and it is true for me. With multiple monitors it's like moving your hands away from the keyboard all the time and looking for the mouse. Same happens for me while looking for anything across the 2 or 3 monitor setup. It just wea…

I have the opposite problem... I have bad eyes, and use HUGE fonts and can basically only get 1 window per monitor... so I have 3 monitors setup: middle for editor left for browser/docs right for email, slack, irc

Similar to you, I've had to increase text sizes gradually over the past decade. Currently I have 3 monitors, from left to right:

Portrait 1080x1920 22" Dell. Landscape 4K LG. Landscape 4K LG. Plus the macbook pro screen, but I hardly ever put stuff on it.

I'm not a fan of the LG monitors I got, model "27UD68-W" in 27 inch. The standby light is bright white and flashes slowly, you have to switch the screen off to stop it. Which is a huge #firstworldproblem, I know, but no other monitor I've used has done this.

I wish I had gotten a higher-refresh-rate screen with less than 4k resolution. Would really like to play some games at faster than 60fps.

Re: My 2020 desk setup

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Post by ZekeSulastin »

The WH-1000XM3 are just about the only recommended bluetooth headphone anymore that makes switching devices that much of a pain. Most will either automatically switch between a few active devices or allow you to switch by just initiating the connection from the target device.

Have you looked at installing the patched pulseaudio-bluetooth modules to gain LDAC support? :)

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