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You'll have to excuse the mess :) https://imgur.com/a/5uTm7VB Also obviously I hid all the proprietary stuff.
Those last two on the right look like they're basically behind you. How do you use those?
Three monitors with one central in landscape remains the best layout.
I've found I like P-L-L Leftmost monitor is portrait, the other 2 landscape. Command line and documents on the portrait monitor. Editing/browsing in the centre. Mail and Teams on the rightmost landscape monitor, with browsing often moved there too.
- text editor with two columns in the middle
- terminal with two colums on the right, left is git, right is build
- terminal on the left for connecting to production, investigating things, and manual testing
I also have a web browser (which contains chat and email) in the middle that I can swap to, but that means no coding.
I've heard that a lot of people like to have a browser to look at documentation at the same time as they code, but I haven't really found this useful, in large part because most of the code I work with has no documentation (the code itself is the documentation).
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That's cool! Any chance you can post a pic of your desk? I'd love to see this
You'll have to excuse the mess :) https://imgur.com/a/5uTm7VB Also obviously I hid all the proprietary stuff.
I prefer to work with a single large external monitor. If my device is a laptop I keep it in clamshell mode when attached to an external monitor. I find switching applications with keyboard shortcuts and focusing on one thing at a time has improved my productivity. Using two or more monitors made it so easy for me to get distracted. To each their own though.
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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 think the closest is running multiple OS X/Linux in VMs
'Tis a bit of a silly article, I'd go insane trying to keep my application windows in the sweet spot for viewing them at a 22 degree rotation. One thing strikes me that I've wondered about when I would rotate some of my monitors: the color shift/viewing angle issue. I can understand in older monitors that have different viewing angles for horizontal and vertical, but some of my monitors over the years have been 176 d…
I still think this ~22° rotation is utter nonsense.
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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.
I’ve tried routing VNC though an ssh tunnel (doesn’t accept connection to localhost), but it’s all pretty shit.
And I really don’t like carrying 2 MacBooks around
Am I the only one (fullstack programmer + designer + hobby photographer) here who's perfectly okay with a single laptop monitor? Maybe it's to do with I love being mobile, maybe it's that I use UI and text very small, but I can perfectly fit either 3 Vscode tabs, or website + PIP video, a few terminals, many views in Sketch or a combination of those in a screen (16" MBP). I'm also okay with working with Photoshop or…
PWM Flickering would be one reason? On M1 Air there is pwm flickering which makes impossible to work with it ... thanks Apple. [0] I would connect external monitor but it has flickering issues with them too. Thanks Apple again. [1] [0] https://www.notebookcheck.net/PWM-Ranking-Notebooks-Smartpho... [1] https://piunikaweb.com/2021/01/08/apple-investigating-mac-mi...
This is interesting but the author considers only one degree of freedom, "roll". Equally important are "pitch" and "yaw". "pitch" is necessary to accommodate another kind of rotation, known in HCI as "slouch". "yaw" is important because sometimes your code is so elegant and impressive, that you need people walking by to see it more than you need to see it yourself. You use yaw to rotate your monitor away, toward the…