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Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

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Re: Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

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Post by voipspear »

andyjpb wrote: post #202
jbverschoor wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to have 2 pcs, connected over synergy, for the same reason. The best part is that your cmd-tab / application switcher is local to that screen. Still looking for a similar solution on 1 laptop with 2 screens.

I've longed for a window manager that can assign different virtual desktops to different screens. Of course, there are compositing, scaling and resolution issues to overcome, but it'd be really neat to have a palette of virtual desktops that could be called up on whichever monitor was most convenient. ...and it'd make screen mirroring during presentations a breeze!

Check out Total Spaces (https://totalspaces.binaryage.com/) for Mac. I use this with dual monitors and love that each monitor can have its own virtual desktop.

I have my left monitor as a communications hub. It has only one virtual screen. I also keep my browser there.

I have a 3x3 grid on the right hand monitor.

Re: Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

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Post by skunkworker »

At the moment I have triple 24" 16:10 1920x1200 monitors in portrait with my laptop to the side on a mount.

I find this can be advantageous to my current monitoring/programming setup as I can split the 3 monitors horizontally into 6 "zones".

For the IDEs and what I am working on, this works great. But unfortunately monitor makers are no longer making 16:10 external displays. My dream display would be a 42" 6k 5760x3600 or 8k 7680x4800 (flat or slightly curved). As this would give ample real estate for full screen apps, the ability to work on IDEs that don't like multiple monitors, high pixel density for crisp text, and splitting into multiple zones.

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Post by andyjpb »

opan wrote: post #216
andyjpb wrote: post #202

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've longed for a window manager that can assign different virtual desktops to different screens. Of course, there are compositing, scaling and resolution issues to overcome, but it'd be really neat to have a palette of virtual desktops that could be called up on whichever monitor was most convenient. ...and it'd make screen mirroring during presentations a breeze!

Maybe I'm not understanding what you want exactly, but it sounds like what i3 and Sway already do. Workspaces are created as needed and are specific to that monitor, so if workspace 3 is on the right monitor, you can jump to it with super-3 even if you're on the left monitor. You'd be looking at workspace 3 on the right monitor plus another workspace like 1 or 2 on the left. Each monitor displays a separate workspace…

Being able to select desktops/workspaces per screen is half the solution.

The other half is allowing the selection to come from a pool of desktops/workspaces common to all screens. i.e. the opposite of what i3 and Sway do.

So given desktops/workspaces a, b and c and screens 1 and 2, the following combinations are possible:

1: a; 2: b

1: a; 2: a

1: c; 2: a

...

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Post by marcellus23 »

wruza wrote: post #184

After reading this thread, things I [maybe] miss in desktop windows ui. 1. Different per-window dpi. Ctrl-scroll on a window title to zoom in/out at ~hw level. Apps shouldn’t care. 1a. Zoom in/out the entire desktop this way (ctrl-scroll on show desktop button). 2. OSX-like fit-size maximization instead of fullscreen. 2a. Alt-lbtn to move, alt-rbtn to resize, everywhere in a window. 3. Hotkey specific windows by alt-…

> OSX-like fit-size maximization instead of fullscreen.

What I wouldn't give for apps to actually take advantage of this. Even most of Apple's own apps just treat the zoom button like an "expand window to size of desktop" button.

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Post by scooble »

andyjpb wrote: post #202
jbverschoor wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to have 2 pcs, connected over synergy, for the same reason. The best part is that your cmd-tab / application switcher is local to that screen. Still looking for a similar solution on 1 laptop with 2 screens.

I've longed for a window manager that can assign different virtual desktops to different screens. Of course, there are compositing, scaling and resolution issues to overcome, but it'd be really neat to have a palette of virtual desktops that could be called up on whichever monitor was most convenient. ...and it'd make screen mirroring during presentations a breeze!

I don’t think you can have the same desktop on both screens, but otherwise herbstluftwm allows this.

Also monitors are virtual so you can have multiple virtual monitors on one physical monitor. I want to one day try this with a 4K tv to have multiple monitor layouts.

Re: Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

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Post by trarman »

tbrock wrote: post #205

What is extremely annoying to me is that all these companies make ultra wide monitors without increasing the horizontal resolution. Why would anyone want an ultra-WIDE monitor with exactly the same resolution as a 4k monitor. The T E X T L O O K S S T R E T C H E D! They need to increase the horizontal resolution when they increase the width of the monitor to add value over a regular shape monitor with the same resol…

My Dell ultrawide displays 5120x1440. It's glorious to behold.

Re: Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

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Post by intrasight »

layer8 wrote: post #174
intrasight wrote: post #161

25 years ago I worked on the air traffic control system modernization. We were using Sony CRTs that were square 2Kx2K with hardware anti-aliasing. The were drop dead gorgeous. I assumed that 25 years forward (today) that everyone would be able to buy such monitors below $1000 (they were like $10K in 1996 dollars). Why no square monitors? Hollywood?

There is a square monitor from Eizo: https://www.eizoglobal.com/products/flexscan/ev2730q/

That's pretty nice. Sold out from what I can see. Next: how to add that hardware anti-aliasing. I assume that GPUs can do that to your desktop.
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