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If you had to setup say a 4-monitor configuration of el-cheapo 23" Wide Screen LCD's (which can be had for next to nothing nowadays), how would you lay it out? The 'default' tiled layout would be a bit daft for working on, but great for movies (3840 x 2160). OTOH, you still have 'square' desktop. Just wondering ... :)
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If you had to setup say a 4-monitor configuration of el-cheapo 23" Wide Screen LCD's (which can be had for next to nothing nowadays), how would you lay it out? The 'default' tiled layout would be a bit daft for working on, but great for movies (3840 x 2160). OTOH, you still have 'square' desktop. Just wondering ... :)
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((λ (x) `(,x ',x)) '(λ (x) `(,x ',x)))Would have a triangle kind of layout. 3 on the bottom one on top in the middle. That way 2 for visual studio one for outlook and one for the browser im testing in :). Sorted! Instead i've only got 1 19" monitor for all 3. Ahh well...
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If you had to setup say a 4-monitor configuration of el-cheapo 23" Wide Screen LCD's (which can be had for next to nothing nowadays), how would you lay it out? The 'default' tiled layout would be a bit daft for working on, but great for movies (3840 x 2160). OTOH, you still have 'square' desktop. Just wondering ... :)
xacc.ide
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((λ (x) `(,x ',x)) '(λ (x) `(,x ',x)))Left to right I have: Two landscape for Outlook, Office Communicator, and running test apps. The other two are portrait for running VS and it's associated windows. Source code on these monitors shows almost 100 lines, with plenty of room on the other monitor for the debugging and properties windows.
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Would have a triangle kind of layout. 3 on the bottom one on top in the middle. That way 2 for visual studio one for outlook and one for the browser im testing in :). Sorted! Instead i've only got 1 19" monitor for all 3. Ahh well...
How about 3 on the bottom, rotated 90 degrees, and one normal top-middle. The IDE can show more lines of code, the browser can be longer, etc. Then Outlook on top can be wide to show wider message titles and messages.
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If you had to setup say a 4-monitor configuration of el-cheapo 23" Wide Screen LCD's (which can be had for next to nothing nowadays), how would you lay it out? The 'default' tiled layout would be a bit daft for working on, but great for movies (3840 x 2160). OTOH, you still have 'square' desktop. Just wondering ... :)
xacc.ide
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((λ (x) `(,x ',x)) '(λ (x) `(,x ',x)))Send them over and I'll try a few variations.
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If you had to setup say a 4-monitor configuration of el-cheapo 23" Wide Screen LCD's (which can be had for next to nothing nowadays), how would you lay it out? The 'default' tiled layout would be a bit daft for working on, but great for movies (3840 x 2160). OTOH, you still have 'square' desktop. Just wondering ... :)
xacc.ide
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((λ (x) `(,x ',x)) '(λ (x) `(,x ',x)))For me... 2 monitors = side by side 3 monitors = side by side by side 4 monitors = two by two ("square") 5 monitors = two on top centered over three on bottom 6 monitors = three by two (two rows of three) also, keep in mind that while monitors are cheap these days, the stands aren't and generally cost about half as much as the total you spent on the monitors (or more if you really got cheap monitors).
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If you had to setup say a 4-monitor configuration of el-cheapo 23" Wide Screen LCD's (which can be had for next to nothing nowadays), how would you lay it out? The 'default' tiled layout would be a bit daft for working on, but great for movies (3840 x 2160). OTOH, you still have 'square' desktop. Just wondering ... :)
xacc.ide
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((λ (x) `(,x ',x)) '(λ (x) `(,x ',x)))I'd go with the 3 side by side with the 4th monitor above the middle monitor. That way you can spread apps like VS over 2 or 3 of the bottom monitors (starting with the left most one), and use the top one for things like email.
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Left to right I have: Two landscape for Outlook, Office Communicator, and running test apps. The other two are portrait for running VS and it's associated windows. Source code on these monitors shows almost 100 lines, with plenty of room on the other monitor for the debugging and properties windows.
ricmil42 wrote:
The other two are portrait for running VS and it's associated windows. Source code on these monitors shows almost 100 lines, with plenty of room on the other monitor for the debugging and properties windows.
Do you have the properties/etc windows dragged off and floating, or VS sized to span multiple monitors?
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ricmil42 wrote:
The other two are portrait for running VS and it's associated windows. Source code on these monitors shows almost 100 lines, with plenty of room on the other monitor for the debugging and properties windows.
Do you have the properties/etc windows dragged off and floating, or VS sized to span multiple monitors?
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If you had to setup say a 4-monitor configuration of el-cheapo 23" Wide Screen LCD's (which can be had for next to nothing nowadays), how would you lay it out? The 'default' tiled layout would be a bit daft for working on, but great for movies (3840 x 2160). OTOH, you still have 'square' desktop. Just wondering ... :)
xacc.ide
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((λ (x) `(,x ',x)) '(λ (x) `(,x ',x)))My dream monitor setup would be a pair of 20" 1200x1600 monitors flanking either side of a 30" 2560x1600 monitor. I have 2 of the three at home now; and the 30" is my planned geeksmas gift for myself in a few months. All three displays would have identical DPIs. If I needed more screens on the cheap, 17" 1280x1024's have almost the same DPI (96 vs 100). Unfortunately a stand capable of holding a 2 tier array of 5/7 monitors or suitable wall mounts would probably end up costing more than the 17's themselves; at which point I might as well just buy more good panels. 20" 1680x1050's and 17" 1440x900's are also 100 DPI; and several other sizes are very close; but none of them have physical resolutions that would line the edges/bezels up nicely.
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I wish my laptop would drive enough displays to do something like that; I need my second too often to display references/supporting apps to have visual studio sprawling across it and covering them up.
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If you had to setup say a 4-monitor configuration of el-cheapo 23" Wide Screen LCD's (which can be had for next to nothing nowadays), how would you lay it out? The 'default' tiled layout would be a bit daft for working on, but great for movies (3840 x 2160). OTOH, you still have 'square' desktop. Just wondering ... :)
xacc.ide
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((λ (x) `(,x ',x)) '(λ (x) `(,x ',x)))I would put them on moving shelves of some form. Then I could have them surround me when I'm working, in one line, and in the square-ish formation if I want to watch a film. If I want to put it in any other layout, I can do that as well.
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I would put them on moving shelves of some form. Then I could have them surround me when I'm working, in one line, and in the square-ish formation if I want to watch a film. If I want to put it in any other layout, I can do that as well.
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I think what you need would be Articulated Monitor Arms.[^] (No endorsement of this product/vendor beyond turning up at the top of a Google search is implied.) A friend of mine has 17(15?)" lcd on a long arm suspended over his bed. IIRC he attached a stock arm to a long piece of pipe and used cinderblocks to stabilize it.
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If you had to setup say a 4-monitor configuration of el-cheapo 23" Wide Screen LCD's (which can be had for next to nothing nowadays), how would you lay it out? The 'default' tiled layout would be a bit daft for working on, but great for movies (3840 x 2160). OTOH, you still have 'square' desktop. Just wondering ... :)
xacc.ide
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((λ (x) `(,x ',x)) '(λ (x) `(,x ',x)))I'll be the odd man out. I don't think I could use four monitors of that size effectively. I use reading glasses (thanks, middle age :suss:). I believe I could handle three monitors arranged in a horizontal arc. I can't think of a position for a fourth that wouldn't be outside the range of my vision correction. Arranging them 2x2 doesn't work well either, since the upper row would be at a bad angle. It's possible that arranging them portrait mode in a 4x1 arc would work, but that makes developing conventional 'landscape' applications problematic.
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