Widescreen Monitor
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If i'm using loads of paper shaped docs simultaneously I use a piece of software called Acer GridVista to split my screen in 2. I have an acer monitor so I got it free but i assume other manufacturers do something similar. Effectively it breaks the screen into 2 and you can maximise within each half. If I'm coding I have the IDE split so i get a slightly wider main section and then loads of toys on the left and right so that most things i need are already on display. Fista sidebar was the first thing I turned off when I got the OS from hell. I didn't get a wider monitor to display an analogue clock, I have one of those on the wall and it works pefectly well without eating my precious pixels. Give it a month or two and you'll be wondering if your second monitor should be widescreen aswell Russell
Russell Jones wrote:
Fista sidebar was the first thing I turned off when I got the OS from hell.
:laugh: Me too. I was looking at a client's screen, and there were three clocks on it. The analog one on the task bar, then the analog clock on the Vista sidebar, and then another digital one that was part of some other gadget. How many clocks does one need on the desktop? Marc
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Russell Jones wrote:
Fista sidebar was the first thing I turned off when I got the OS from hell.
:laugh: Me too. I was looking at a client's screen, and there were three clocks on it. The analog one on the task bar, then the analog clock on the Vista sidebar, and then another digital one that was part of some other gadget. How many clocks does one need on the desktop? Marc
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Russell Jones wrote:
Fista sidebar was the first thing I turned off when I got the OS from hell.
:laugh: Me too. I was looking at a client's screen, and there were three clocks on it. The analog one on the task bar, then the analog clock on the Vista sidebar, and then another digital one that was part of some other gadget. How many clocks does one need on the desktop? Marc
Marc Clifton wrote:
How many clocks does one need on the desktop?
3?
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Russell Jones wrote:
I didn't get a wider monitor to display an analogue clock, I have one of those on the wall and it works pefectly well without eating my precious pixels.
Very well said. Nice idea about GridVista, it's only a Dell monitor but might get one for home too (not a Dell though) and will look for something like GridVista. thanks
Jonathan Wilkes Darka[Xanya.net]
If you find anything (free) that does the same thing, please let me know, It'd be really useful here too.
Luca The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. -- Wing Commander IV En Það Besta Sem Guð Hefur Skapað, Er Nýr Dagur. (But the best thing God has created, is a New Day.) -- Sigur Ròs - Viðrar vel til loftárása
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Marc Clifton wrote:
How many clocks does one need on the desktop?
42? ;P Btw how is Java on zee Appel? :laugh:
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IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 2 out nowleppie wrote:
Btw how is Java on zee Appel?
Productive. He's already knocked up JInteracX.
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If i'm using loads of paper shaped docs simultaneously I use a piece of software called Acer GridVista to split my screen in 2. I have an acer monitor so I got it free but i assume other manufacturers do something similar. Effectively it breaks the screen into 2 and you can maximise within each half. If I'm coding I have the IDE split so i get a slightly wider main section and then loads of toys on the left and right so that most things i need are already on display. Fista sidebar was the first thing I turned off when I got the OS from hell. I didn't get a wider monitor to display an analogue clock, I have one of those on the wall and it works pefectly well without eating my precious pixels. Give it a month or two and you'll be wondering if your second monitor should be widescreen aswell Russell
Just tried it and it doesn't seem to behave well with office 2k7. The extra buttons on the titlebar aren't drawn and there doesn't appear to be any way to toggle the always lock to grid option.
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop. -- Matthew Faithfull
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Managed to grab a widescreen monitor at work, just got to get used to it now. Quick question for those already using a widescreen. It all seems a little weird having so much space, not sure what to do with it all yet... Do you typically maximise all windows or leave the right hand side free for other windows, such as the Vista sidebar ? regards,
Jonathan Wilkes Darka[Xanya.net]
Jonathan [Darka] wrote:
It all seems a little weird having so much space, not sure what to do with it all yet...
only by comparison of not having it before. pretty soon you will get used to it and want a 2nd. I rarely maximize. Oh sure, on the first time loaded I set up both monitors on a combined aspect and snapped a panorama of 3D landscapes just to do so. But I generally run debugging/writing tools on one and live apps on the other. The wide aspect simply lets me have more room to arrange the apps.
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leppie wrote:
Btw how is Java on zee Appel?
Productive. He's already knocked up JInteracX.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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If you find anything (free) that does the same thing, please let me know, It'd be really useful here too.
Luca The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance. -- Wing Commander IV En Það Besta Sem Guð Hefur Skapað, Er Nýr Dagur. (But the best thing God has created, is a New Day.) -- Sigur Ròs - Viðrar vel til loftárása
it appears to be available for legit download on various websites, i'm not sure if it's hardware locked though
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Jonathan [Darka] wrote:
It all seems a little weird having so much space, not sure what to do with it all yet...
only by comparison of not having it before. pretty soon you will get used to it and want a 2nd. I rarely maximize. Oh sure, on the first time loaded I set up both monitors on a combined aspect and snapped a panorama of 3D landscapes just to do so. But I generally run debugging/writing tools on one and live apps on the other. The wide aspect simply lets me have more room to arrange the apps.
El Corazon wrote:
pretty soon you will get used to it and want a 2nd
That's what I am worried about, could be expensive.... but a necessity too of course :-)
Jonathan Wilkes Darka[Xanya.net]
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Russell Jones wrote:
I didn't get a wider monitor to display an analogue clock, I have one of those on the wall and it works pefectly well without eating my precious pixels.
Very well said. Nice idea about GridVista, it's only a Dell monitor but might get one for home too (not a Dell though) and will look for something like GridVista. thanks
Jonathan Wilkes Darka[Xanya.net]
BTW that "Open elevated command prompt here" tool is a daily life saver for me. I still find it hard to believe that MS didn't add things like su and "Edit as root" to UAC but your tool + notepad come to my rescue all the time. That said I'm not sure i should thank you as without your tool I'd have gone back to XP long ago ;-) Thanks very much, Russell
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it appears to be available for legit download on various websites, i'm not sure if it's hardware locked though
nope, works on my dell monitors.
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop. -- Matthew Faithfull
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BTW that "Open elevated command prompt here" tool is a daily life saver for me. I still find it hard to believe that MS didn't add things like su and "Edit as root" to UAC but your tool + notepad come to my rescue all the time. That said I'm not sure i should thank you as without your tool I'd have gone back to XP long ago ;-) Thanks very much, Russell
Thanks Russell, I use it all the time and I'm glad you like it. If you ever think of anything you want adding to make it even more useful then please let me know. It's probably saved my installation of Vista too ;) Appreciate it,
Jonathan Wilkes Darka[Xanya.net]
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Russell Jones wrote:
Fista sidebar was the first thing I turned off when I got the OS from hell.
:laugh: Me too. I was looking at a client's screen, and there were three clocks on it. The analog one on the task bar, then the analog clock on the Vista sidebar, and then another digital one that was part of some other gadget. How many clocks does one need on the desktop? Marc
Well I have 2. One on my XP taskbar. A second on the Multimon taskbar on my 2nd monitor.[^] It's basically a poor mans (read freeware) knockoff of ultramon. There doesn't appear to be an option to disable the clock on it.
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop. -- Matthew Faithfull
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Just tried it and it doesn't seem to behave well with office 2k7. The extra buttons on the titlebar aren't drawn and there doesn't appear to be any way to toggle the always lock to grid option.
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop. -- Matthew Faithfull
It really doesn't like excel 2k7. The excel window started doing a 1 or 2 pixel shimmy back and forth from the full screen maximized position and then crashed when I unloaded the utility to stop it.
Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop. -- Matthew Faithfull
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El Corazon wrote:
pretty soon you will get used to it and want a 2nd
That's what I am worried about, could be expensive.... but a necessity too of course :-)
Jonathan Wilkes Darka[Xanya.net]
Jonathan [Darka] wrote:
but a necessity too of course
All of my team has two monitors, I won't force them to link them together on one computer (they also each have two computers), but I do encourage dual monitor use. For a developer it is extremely handy to be able to run your software even up to full screen on one monitor and debug/develop on the other. Since I got the project leader hooked on that type of development he also has been quite helpful in supplying monitors. :-D
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Jonathan [Darka] wrote:
but a necessity too of course
All of my team has two monitors, I won't force them to link them together on one computer (they also each have two computers), but I do encourage dual monitor use. For a developer it is extremely handy to be able to run your software even up to full screen on one monitor and debug/develop on the other. Since I got the project leader hooked on that type of development he also has been quite helpful in supplying monitors. :-D
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
I also prefer a 2 monitor approach but this is my first widescreen, will probably want another though as I am getting used to this a little too quickly and my home pc's non-widesreen is going to seem a little small tonight :(
Jonathan Wilkes Darka[Xanya.net]
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Managed to grab a widescreen monitor at work, just got to get used to it now. Quick question for those already using a widescreen. It all seems a little weird having so much space, not sure what to do with it all yet... Do you typically maximise all windows or leave the right hand side free for other windows, such as the Vista sidebar ? regards,
Jonathan Wilkes Darka[Xanya.net]
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