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Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

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Re: Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

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SomeBoolshit wrote: post #212
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…

I've never encountered an ultra wide that didn't support the equivalent desktop resolution. Are you sure this wasn't a problem with the drivers or the capabilities of the device you plugged it into?

No. Their max horizontal resolution (technical specification) is no better than a 4k monitor’s.

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MatthewWilkes wrote: post #219
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 Samsung Ultrawide has a 3840x1080 resolution. Once or twice it's been misdetected as normal horizontal resolution, when switching PIP off. I suspect you've been the victim of a driver/host issue.

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Re: Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

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Post by tbrock »

MatthewWilkes wrote: post #219
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 Samsung Ultrawide has a 3840x1080 resolution. Once or twice it's been misdetected as normal horizontal resolution, when switching PIP off. I suspect you've been the victim of a driver/host issue.

Thats bad. That max horizontal resolution is no better than a 4k monitor’s.

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Post by tbrock »

CitrusFruits wrote: post #213
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…

I've never seen this happen. If you look at Newegg for example all these monitors seem to have the proper resolution to accommodate their aspect ratio. https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=ultrawide *edited for grammar

Literally none of them have a horizontal resolution exceeding that of a non-wide 4k monitor.

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Post by tbrock »

trarman wrote: post #229
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.

What model?

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Post by selfhoster11 »

mgraczyk wrote: post #155

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…

I know that you are writing in jest, but the very concept that any amount of slouching is tolerable to someone in this profession should be outrageous. We spend decades deforming our backs to sit in chairs. The least we can do is to promote the idea of an international "Insufficiently Ergonomic Office Chair Bonfire Day".

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Post by can16358p »

kitsunesoba wrote: post #253
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…

That's interesting, I use Vscode too, with 3 tabs perfectly fine, but maybe that boils down to style. For example I don't have documentation open (and if I get stuck I just Google/SO/GH) and Cmd+Tab'ing to switch to Slack easier than turning to a different screen.

It probably boils down to getting used to and muscle memory.

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Post by tomxor »

cogburnd02 wrote: post #306
tomxor wrote: post #288

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or the building is sloped, which is tricky because it's not clear whether it's best to align to the room or gravity. ...My last office was a "listed" building, in both the nautical and historic sense.

I mean, unless you're working in the leaning tower of Pisa, I can't imagine any change of tilt would be in any way useful.

An unmodified desk could have up to 3 inches of difference in height end to end, but to be fair the warped floors contributed to this more than the building structure.

> I can't imagine any change of tilt would be in any way useful.

It was somewhat useful for ball games.

Re: Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

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Post by selfhoster11 »

function_seven wrote: post #291
ziml77 wrote: post #248

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My setup in the office is a screen dedicated to Outlook, a screen for my code, and a screen for documentation and chat. I know some people in the office who made one or both of the side screens vertical, but that doesn't work for me. Vertical means I'm tilting my head or my eyes up and down which doesn't feel great. Also horizontal side monitors are in my peripheral vision, vertical side monitors extend too far up to…

I miss that. When I was at work, I had a trio of old 20" (1680 x 1050, IIRC) screens. They were 2005FPW Dells that had a—for the time—beautiful IPS display. I got them used for around $80 apiece. Email on the left, documentation and browsing on the right, and code or database windows in the center. Now in my home office it's a pair of 24" 1920x1200 displays. They're great, but I miss the centered "main" screen, and t…

I'm plotting my first ever switch to a tiling window manager (in my life!) to make use of my excessively large new screen.
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