Top-Left Magic Corner Desktop Paradigm
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#2As a teenager, I always put the Windows task bar on the left, under the logic that vertical space was more important than horizontal space for reading text. (Yes, this is the sort of thing I thought about as a teenager.)
As an adult, I've switched back to the bottom. Teenage-me's reasoning wasn't wrong per se, but in practice I feel 16:9 screens already provide sufficient vertical space, whereas I like having more horizontal space to keep multiple windows open at a time. When I was a teenager, I usually just kept everything in full screen anyway.
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#3While having the taskbar on the left works fine on single-monitor setups, I dislike it on multi-monitor setups where the taskbar is shown on all the screens. Typically I like having the taskbar mirrored on all my screens so I can access it easily wherever my mouse is. In this case the left taskbar ends up obstructing any windows that span multiple monitors.
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#4I have the top-left corner on MacOS set to act as a "hot corner." Whenever my mouse goes there, it triggers exposé, showing all my windows to me. I got the habit from using gnome3, which does this by default, and find it quite handy with muscle memory.
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#5While having the taskbar on the left works fine on single-monitor setups, I dislike it on multi-monitor setups where the taskbar is shown on all the screens. Typically I like having the taskbar mirrored on all my screens so I can access it easily wherever my mouse is. In this case the left taskbar ends up obstructing any windows that span multiple monitors.
Ultrawide monitors (I'm using the 49" Samsung Odyssey G9 at 5120x1440) would also suffer from having a taskbar on a side of the screen -- I currently have my Windows bar at the top of the screen, but honestly, the MacOS dock might be the best usability route for this monitor setup to keep things nice and centered.
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#6While having the taskbar on the left works fine on single-monitor setups, I dislike it on multi-monitor setups where the taskbar is shown on all the screens. Typically I like having the taskbar mirrored on all my screens so I can access it easily wherever my mouse is. In this case the left taskbar ends up obstructing any windows that span multiple monitors.
Interesting! I'm running a three monitor setup and have the taskbar only on my most right display in the right side of the display, that way I have two entire displays entirely free for use and on the third display I think having the taskbar in the side takes up less space. (My displays are 16:9, 1080p each)
To me having the same thing on every display feels redundant. But that's probably just me, because my brother has the same setup as what you described.
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#7As a teenager, I always put the Windows task bar on the left, under the logic that vertical space was more important than horizontal space for reading text. (Yes, this is the sort of thing I thought about as a teenager.) As an adult, I've switched back to the bottom. Teenage-me's reasoning wasn't wrong per se, but in practice I feel 16:9 screens already provide sufficient vertical space, whereas I like having more ho…
I think my experience has been similar. There's a couple reasons I can think that explain it;
- Resolutions improving/increasing has made multiple windows per screen feasible, in past you pretty much had to do full screen and toggle windows to multitask
- Mouse/scroll support followed. I can scroll on an inactive window these days. In past, you had to toggle and put focus on the window to be able to scroll, meaning you had to toggle windows to multitask
- Multitasking has become so multi. I am engaged in different apps/windows and need to watch them. I might have open a video on an eighth of my screen too just to watch something as I work. The only app I can think that came close to this in the past was AIM.
Re: Top-Left Magic Corner Desktop Paradigm
#8As a teenager, I always put the Windows task bar on the left, under the logic that vertical space was more important than horizontal space for reading text. (Yes, this is the sort of thing I thought about as a teenager.) As an adult, I've switched back to the bottom. Teenage-me's reasoning wasn't wrong per se, but in practice I feel 16:9 screens already provide sufficient vertical space, whereas I like having more ho…
Some screens have enough vertical space—16:9 ain't included unless ginormous.
Re: Top-Left Magic Corner Desktop Paradigm
#9I have the top-left corner on MacOS set to act as a "hot corner." Whenever my mouse goes there, it triggers exposé, showing all my windows to me. I got the habit from using gnome3, which does this by default, and find it quite handy with muscle memory.
I use the top-left corner in macOS for "Disable screensaver." When I'm pondering something on the screen for a while, I can just move the mouse there and not be interrupted.
When I use my Windows machine, it's probably the feature I miss most. I've asked my IT people at work, and they tell me there's no way to disable the screen saver on demand in Windows. I don't know if that's an OS thing, or just one of their policies.
Conversely, Option-top right corner activates the screen saver.
Re: Top-Left Magic Corner Desktop Paradigm
#10As a teenager, I always put the Windows task bar on the left, under the logic that vertical space was more important than horizontal space for reading text. (Yes, this is the sort of thing I thought about as a teenager.) As an adult, I've switched back to the bottom. Teenage-me's reasoning wasn't wrong per se, but in practice I feel 16:9 screens already provide sufficient vertical space, whereas I like having more ho…
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