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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 nezirus »

jbverschoor wrote: post #236
andyjpb wrote: post #202

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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!

I basically want to have real multi user. I want my dev/project to be an isolated user, also bc of software supply chain security. I want to map it to a (virtual) screen. I want to be able to share the clipboard. I think the closest is running multiple OS X/Linux in VMs

Sway has multiseat, maybe it would be a match for your use-case, check manual for sway-input.

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Post by kitsunesoba »

can16358p wrote: post #67

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…

I don’t think I could use my usual IDEs on a laptop screen for too long without going nuts. Even VS Code with its various unhidable UI elements is pushing it. For long term laptop usage I’d need to be writing code in something like Sublime Text or vim where extraneous UI is kept to a bare minimum.

And as others have noted, having a second screen for documentation and work chat (which can be the laptop display, don’t need a second 27”) is essential for me.

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Post by pxc »

jedberg wrote: post #208
LegitShady wrote: post #146

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get glasses?

Wearing glasses for 12 hours a day after never wearing them can be a difficult adjustment to make.

Wearing glasses for 12 hours a day after just wearing contacts most of the time for a few months can be jarring. I always forget how tiny it makes everything look!

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Post by jedberg »

LegitShady wrote: post #255
jedberg wrote: post #208

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Wearing glasses for 12 hours a day after never wearing them can be a difficult adjustment to make.

an easier adjustment than not being able to see.

But it's not the only option. Another option is a bigger screen with bigger fonts. And that's a lot easier to adjust to than glasses. I know because I tried glasses first and then went to a bigger monitor.

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Post by bluGill »

mh- wrote: post #176
tombert wrote: post #151

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I am exactly the same way. I have a 50" 4k TV in my basement that exists solely as a monitor for my laptop(s). TVs have the advantage of being ridiculously cheap, and there's no law saying that you can't just plug into the HDMI port and use it as a monitor. The refresh-rate is so-so, but since all I don't really play games, it's not a problem. Having a 50" TV lets me sit pretty far away from the screen and also gives…

If you haven't, get your vision tested by a good optometrist. I had an unknown-to-me astigmatism with otherwise perfect vision. I hadn't seen an eye doctor in (ever?) so I don't know when it started. I didn't notice I was having the problems you describe until I got some corrective lenses to use only when I'm on the computer. Blew my mind.

I did. He told me that I just have the normal symptoms of getting old. I miss my 20s when I could read tiny text on a 19inch screen (CRT). Now I magnify everything, 250% really messages with a lot of websites, but at least I can read. (I'm writing this on a pinebook pro, so the screen is not large to begin with)

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Post by madrox »

I think I’ll mandate this for my entire engineering team, but put each team member 1 degree off from each other and measure the change in productivity. Not only can we see if the results are reproducible, but we can determine how much a degree of rotation impacts productivity.

Re: Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

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Post by ghostbrainalpha »

rsweeney21 wrote: post #96

For years I ran triple monitors side by side. Then I tried dual widescreen monitors stacked vertically. This has been game changing. It is much easier on my neck to look up 10 deg vs turning sideways 45 deg I can split VC code into three columns on my main monitor, then have two zones in the top monitor for other apps. 10/10.

Where does the webcam go?
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