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Just idle curiosity, but what kinds of program do you use full-screen? Me, I only ever use full screen for graphics apps, database editors, and video -- where the extra space is needed, IMO. I prefer to be able to click between windows without moving anything or un-hiding the taskbar (which ms has made a lot more difficult, by doing away with window borders and title-bars), and my most-used desktop shortcuts are arranged so that they're usually accessible, even if I have a dozen windows open. I certainly wouldn't go to full screen if it meant creating a lot of blank space.
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Movies, Visual Studio, SQL Management Studio, and sometimes VIM when I need to work in multiple files. Everything else I try to keep restricted to one half or one quarter of a screen. It still annoys me that Stack Overflow doesn't fit nicely into half of a 1080p screen.
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Just idle curiosity, but what kinds of program do you use full-screen? Me, I only ever use full screen for graphics apps, database editors, and video -- where the extra space is needed, IMO. I prefer to be able to click between windows without moving anything or un-hiding the taskbar (which ms has made a lot more difficult, by doing away with window borders and title-bars), and my most-used desktop shortcuts are arranged so that they're usually accessible, even if I have a dozen windows open. I certainly wouldn't go to full screen if it meant creating a lot of blank space.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Chrome (Left hand monitor, portrait) VS (RH monitor, landscape) SSMS (Swaps between) PaintShop Pro (Both!) VideoStudio (RHM) Book / PDF readers (Depends on why I'm reading them which monitor they are on) Games.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Just idle curiosity, but what kinds of program do you use full-screen? Me, I only ever use full screen for graphics apps, database editors, and video -- where the extra space is needed, IMO. I prefer to be able to click between windows without moving anything or un-hiding the taskbar (which ms has made a lot more difficult, by doing away with window borders and title-bars), and my most-used desktop shortcuts are arranged so that they're usually accessible, even if I have a dozen windows open. I certainly wouldn't go to full screen if it meant creating a lot of blank space.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
My audio workstation software and IDE too.
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Just idle curiosity, but what kinds of program do you use full-screen? Me, I only ever use full screen for graphics apps, database editors, and video -- where the extra space is needed, IMO. I prefer to be able to click between windows without moving anything or un-hiding the taskbar (which ms has made a lot more difficult, by doing away with window borders and title-bars), and my most-used desktop shortcuts are arranged so that they're usually accessible, even if I have a dozen windows open. I certainly wouldn't go to full screen if it meant creating a lot of blank space.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Mark_Wallace wrote:
what kinds of program do you use full-screen?
Games. I'd also recommend it for presentations using PowerPoint-slides.
Mark_Wallace wrote:
I certainly wouldn't go to full screen if it meant creating a lot of blank space.
Sometimes management simply rules that it looks better.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)
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Chrome (Left hand monitor, portrait) VS (RH monitor, landscape) SSMS (Swaps between) PaintShop Pro (Both!) VideoStudio (RHM) Book / PDF readers (Depends on why I'm reading them which monitor they are on) Games.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
Ooh, I can't stand having browsers full screen/maximised unless the pages actually have enough content to fill the area. Even CP has 3-4 inches of whitespace either side, if maximised; I can't be doing with wasting that much space. I have VS almost maximised, with a half-inch space at the top to access title-bars of other apps, and a shortcut-wide space on the left.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
what kinds of program do you use full-screen?
Games. I'd also recommend it for presentations using PowerPoint-slides.
Mark_Wallace wrote:
I certainly wouldn't go to full screen if it meant creating a lot of blank space.
Sometimes management simply rules that it looks better.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)
Eddy Vluggen wrote:
Games.
Good point. I don't play games much. any more. I must be getting old and boring.
Eddy Vluggen wrote:
Sometimes management simply rules that it looks better
Hey, my PCs are for getting work done, not for winning fashion shows -- do I look like an apple fanboi?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Just idle curiosity, but what kinds of program do you use full-screen? Me, I only ever use full screen for graphics apps, database editors, and video -- where the extra space is needed, IMO. I prefer to be able to click between windows without moving anything or un-hiding the taskbar (which ms has made a lot more difficult, by doing away with window borders and title-bars), and my most-used desktop shortcuts are arranged so that they're usually accessible, even if I have a dozen windows open. I certainly wouldn't go to full screen if it meant creating a lot of blank space.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Just idle curiosity, but what kinds of program do you use full-screen? Me, I only ever use full screen for graphics apps, database editors, and video -- where the extra space is needed, IMO. I prefer to be able to click between windows without moving anything or un-hiding the taskbar (which ms has made a lot more difficult, by doing away with window borders and title-bars), and my most-used desktop shortcuts are arranged so that they're usually accessible, even if I have a dozen windows open. I certainly wouldn't go to full screen if it meant creating a lot of blank space.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Nearly everything.
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Nearly everything.
That'd drive me crazy. I switch between windows/apps far too frequently.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Movies, Visual Studio, SQL Management Studio, and sometimes VIM when I need to work in multiple files. Everything else I try to keep restricted to one half or one quarter of a screen. It still annoys me that Stack Overflow doesn't fit nicely into half of a 1080p screen.
Dar Brett wrote:
It still annoys me that Stack Overflow doesn't fit nicely into half of a 1080p screen.
Hey, SO is run by developers; they know better than their users.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Just idle curiosity, but what kinds of program do you use full-screen? Me, I only ever use full screen for graphics apps, database editors, and video -- where the extra space is needed, IMO. I prefer to be able to click between windows without moving anything or un-hiding the taskbar (which ms has made a lot more difficult, by doing away with window borders and title-bars), and my most-used desktop shortcuts are arranged so that they're usually accessible, even if I have a dozen windows open. I certainly wouldn't go to full screen if it meant creating a lot of blank space.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
Any VM or remote desktop session and anything where I'm using Chromecast from desktop.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Ooh, I can't stand having browsers full screen/maximised unless the pages actually have enough content to fill the area. Even CP has 3-4 inches of whitespace either side, if maximised; I can't be doing with wasting that much space. I have VS almost maximised, with a half-inch space at the top to access title-bars of other apps, and a shortcut-wide space on the left.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
That's why I have a portrait and a landscape monitor: CP for example is perfect on portrait as you can see almost a whole page length, and maybe four millimeters white space either side. (Try it: software rotate your monitor and have a look at what you get) For title bars I use ALT+TAB or the taskbar, I don't need to waste space at the top of the screen.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Ooh, I can't stand having browsers full screen/maximised unless the pages actually have enough content to fill the area. Even CP has 3-4 inches of whitespace either side, if maximised; I can't be doing with wasting that much space. I have VS almost maximised, with a half-inch space at the top to access title-bars of other apps, and a shortcut-wide space on the left.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
For CP click the fluid link at the very bottom of the page and the sites layout will expand to fill all your horizontal space.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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Just idle curiosity, but what kinds of program do you use full-screen? Me, I only ever use full screen for graphics apps, database editors, and video -- where the extra space is needed, IMO. I prefer to be able to click between windows without moving anything or un-hiding the taskbar (which ms has made a lot more difficult, by doing away with window borders and title-bars), and my most-used desktop shortcuts are arranged so that they're usually accessible, even if I have a dozen windows open. I certainly wouldn't go to full screen if it meant creating a lot of blank space.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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For CP click the fluid link at the very bottom of the page and the sites layout will expand to fill all your horizontal space.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
Wowser! Um, it moves all the whitespace into the middle...
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Remarkable. That makes a fifth of people who've replied (so far) who "go large". I was expecting it to be less.
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That'd drive me crazy. I switch between windows/apps far too frequently.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
I run most in maximized. And do switching either by a alt tabbing or by using the custom hotkeys (with AutoHotkey) to start or activate (if already running) the programs mostly use. Like "Win + N" for Notepad++, "Win+G" for Chrome, "Win+C" for a command line shell etc. as soon as the hotkey combinations are muscle memory switching is a breeze. I only ever have multipe windows side-by-side if I need/want to observe them at same time. Else they just look distracting.
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Remarkable. That makes a fifth of people who've replied (so far) who "go large". I was expecting it to be less.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
To be more precise I do have two full screens, with two windows. In my previous job I had one screen full with IDE and the other with docs/or a browser. My present job is very different: on one screen I have my Windows stuff full of browser/pdf/total commander etc and the other is my Linux VM work env full screen. Although there my command prompt is split into four command prompts with the nifty Terminator shell. That could count as four windows... :cool: I could typically need four command prompts for * Start server * Start test client * tail -f log * find/grep around in source and config files Some test scenarios involve as much as 4 different servers chatting to each other!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Just idle curiosity, but what kinds of program do you use full-screen? Me, I only ever use full screen for graphics apps, database editors, and video -- where the extra space is needed, IMO. I prefer to be able to click between windows without moving anything or un-hiding the taskbar (which ms has made a lot more difficult, by doing away with window borders and title-bars), and my most-used desktop shortcuts are arranged so that they're usually accessible, even if I have a dozen windows open. I certainly wouldn't go to full screen if it meant creating a lot of blank space.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
On Windows, Visual Studio, Photoshop, Illustrator, SQL Management.. On MacBook, almost everything - it's really fluid to switch apps with a simple [three-fingered flick](http://www.laptopmag.com/images/wp/purch-api/incontent/2016/03/full-screen-03-529x400.png) left or right.
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
