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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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Nearly everything.
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Nearly everything.
That'd drive me crazy. I switch between windows/apps far too frequently.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
All of them. I use alt-tab to switch windows.
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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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Videos (sometimes), Cubase. I too prefer to click between windows rather than their taskbar icons, or hitting Alt-Tab or whatever. I also hate having to minimize all the open windows just to find and click on a desktop shortcut icon to start a program, so I hide desktop icons and either start programs from the taskbar or its pop-up list of desktop items, or the Start menu.
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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!
IDE is definitely maximized and I try to get rid of as many of the little windows inside it as possible, but then I'm old I started with BRIEF and had it set to 50 line mode. When I'm looking at code I don't need all that extra noise. I've also in the past month moved from a Windows machine to a Mac. The development I'm currently working on is not Windows centric and the group of developers I'm now working with were mostly Silver Box people so I decided one more thing on my learning curve wouldn't be too much and I don't have to worry about the translation of how stuff gets done on Windows verses Mac. That said, I hate the Mac version of alt-tab. If your current application is maximized and you Command-Tab to a different application the new application does not appear. Maybe this is a "I don't understand the Mac well enough yet" thing but it is a pain in the lower extremities. And using a Windows VM inside a Mac will drive you nuts between all the different alt, control, command key combinations.:confused:
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IDE is definitely maximized and I try to get rid of as many of the little windows inside it as possible, but then I'm old I started with BRIEF and had it set to 50 line mode. When I'm looking at code I don't need all that extra noise. I've also in the past month moved from a Windows machine to a Mac. The development I'm currently working on is not Windows centric and the group of developers I'm now working with were mostly Silver Box people so I decided one more thing on my learning curve wouldn't be too much and I don't have to worry about the translation of how stuff gets done on Windows verses Mac. That said, I hate the Mac version of alt-tab. If your current application is maximized and you Command-Tab to a different application the new application does not appear. Maybe this is a "I don't understand the Mac well enough yet" thing but it is a pain in the lower extremities. And using a Windows VM inside a Mac will drive you nuts between all the different alt, control, command key combinations.:confused:
MarkTJohnson wrote:
sing a Windows VM inside a Mac will drive you nuts between all the different alt, control, command key combinations
True. It's one of the reasons I prefer to see the background windows and click on them.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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IDE is definitely maximized and I try to get rid of as many of the little windows inside it as possible, but then I'm old I started with BRIEF and had it set to 50 line mode. When I'm looking at code I don't need all that extra noise. I've also in the past month moved from a Windows machine to a Mac. The development I'm currently working on is not Windows centric and the group of developers I'm now working with were mostly Silver Box people so I decided one more thing on my learning curve wouldn't be too much and I don't have to worry about the translation of how stuff gets done on Windows verses Mac. That said, I hate the Mac version of alt-tab. If your current application is maximized and you Command-Tab to a different application the new application does not appear. Maybe this is a "I don't understand the Mac well enough yet" thing but it is a pain in the lower extremities. And using a Windows VM inside a Mac will drive you nuts between all the different alt, control, command key combinations.:confused:
MarkTJohnson wrote:
And using a Windows VM inside a Mac will drive you nuts between all the different alt, control, command key combinations.:confused:
Had the same sort of problems with my recent adventure with an Ubuntu VM under a Mac because the former mostly used the same shortcuts as my PC. Mostly I suffered the same reasons you did, lost time due to the Mac being a Mac was as least a learning experience. Setting up the dev environment again after the IT guy finally got me a loaner PC would've been pure waste.
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.
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Mark_Wallace wrote:
what kinds of program do you use full-screen
Almost everything... But I have 3 screens to spread application on... [EDIT] Reading Marco's replace: I mixed full-screen with maximized... Se answer as corrected...
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I concur with this... I tend to maximize on side monitors in full screen mode and have tiled apps in the center monitor when I'm not in full bore developer mode. At the point that I do flip that switch all three become full screen and I strategically place windows in various monitors so as I need to switch beyond the three up on the screens that they are convenient to cross reference or copy from one to the next.
