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To those with 2+ monitors on your machine: What's your use case, and how much does it actually boost your productivity? (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I'm mainly curious about software developers here, or anyone else whose computer is somewhat central to their life, be it professional or hobbyist.

I only have two monitors—one directly in front of me, and another to the right of it, angled toward me. For web development, I keep my editor on the main screen, and anything auxiliary (be that a dev build, a video, StackOverflow, etc.) on the side screen.

I wouldn't mind a third monitor, and if I had one, I'd definitely use it for log/output, since currently it's a floating window that I shuffle around however necessary. It could be smaller than the other two, and I might even turn it vertical so I could split the screen between output and a terminal, configuring a AutoHotKey script to focus the terminal.

What about y'all?

[ cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13864053 ]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

What do you use for tiling? I've been curious about this setup, but the software setup sounds like a pain compared to 2 monitors.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

If you're on windows, display fusion was great for this. Since I switched to Linux, KDE just natively does everything I needed display fusion to do. Changed some key binds to match what I was already used to and was off to the races.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Have you played with PowerToys on Windows? It has some extra tools for playing with window tiling

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I have not. From a quick web search, it looks like "Fancy Zones" might do what is needed without having to buy anything extra.