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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 sandermvanvliet »

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…

You’re not alone, I use the 4K monitor on my laptop exclusively and it works just fine. More space for me just means I keep to much stuff open anyway

Re: Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

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Post by eludwig »

Right now I use 2 4K 27" 120hz monitors from Acer (XV273K) and share both with a gaming PC and my Mac 16" laptop in clamshell mode. The Acers have a ton of inputs (2 DP, 2 hdmi) so it's easy to have all hooked up at once at the monitor end.

I also generally prefer one large monitor, so I will angle/connect 2nd DP to Mac, unangle/remove 2nd DP from Mac as needed for work. I am mainly a front-end web dev these days and occasionally really need that second screen! But I don't like moving my head around and inevitable go back to single monitor when possible.

Viva la flexibility!

Re: Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

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Post by dcchambers »

My ideal programming screen is a 1:1 square.

Before I got my 4K display I tried using a 24" 1920x1080 monitor in vertical orientation, and found that even though 1080 pixels wide should be enough to render any website fine, some websites (including some pretty big/important websites) started treating my screen as a mobile device screen, hiding many elements and giving me the mobile view/UI. I guess those sites weren't detecting user agent and were detecting screen resolution? Idk but it was annoying.

Got a 27" 4K screen last year and I have just left it in landscape mode...it's been fine.

Re: Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

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Post by staindk »

cecilpl2 wrote: post #50

I run 7 monitors. I've got a 2x3 grid of 24" monitors on a stand, and then a 27" widescreen standing tall beside it for code or a long terminal. It's fantastic, though I could stand to have another row above. It's nice rarely having to switch windows - everything I need and use is right in front of me.

My neck hurts just reading this

Re: Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

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Post by WithinReason »

DennisP wrote: post #30
ASalazarMX wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tall monitors must be hard on the neck if you frequently need to see the top half of it. The ergonomic recommendation is keeping the monitors at eye level. How do you deal with that?

What I'd like: an editor with multiple tiled windows side by side, filling up a wide monitor, all showing the same text threaded through it. Line n at the bottom of one puts line n+1 at the top of the window to the right of it. Scrolling in one window scrolls them all. (Of course you could optionally split it up differently to see multiple files.)

This is exactly what I was thinking! Wonder how it works in practice.

Re: Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

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Post by rsweeney21 »

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.

Re: Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

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Post by zzt123 »

Causality1 wrote: post #17

I don't understand why 3:2 and 16:10 have taken over the mobile space but if I want one for my desktop my choices are 1920x1200 or a thirty inch, thousand dollar monstrosity with bad response times.

Bad response times plague the mobile space too. Just look at the new MBP with its 120hz display that has >40ms latency. But Mac displays, though looking gorgeous, have always had latency that was heavily perceptible.

Is there even a mainstream desktop display that has anywhere near the latency of Macs?

Re: Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

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Post by rout39574 »

cecilpl2 wrote: post #50

I run 7 monitors. I've got a 2x3 grid of 24" monitors on a stand, and then a 27" widescreen standing tall beside it for code or a long terminal. It's fantastic, though I could stand to have another row above. It's nice rarely having to switch windows - everything I need and use is right in front of me.

Fun! First encounter with a non-daytrader who's got more than my 6: I use 4 portrait on the desktop, and 2 landscape on a stand, held above them.

What window manager do you use? I'm Xmonad.

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