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 No.110979

What are your thoughts on using multiple displays vs having one main one.

Having done the following:
- One widescreen monitor
- Two monitors
- One Widescreen + Laptop screen
- One TV monitor
I find that my ability to focus on tasks and get into the `zen` zone state of programming is much simpler when I only have one primary monitor to focus my attention on and then potentially an auxiliary one to play music or get outside notifications. Only one thing is the object of my focus at a time and this helps me get things done.

 No.110980

I ave found tat to be te case too. Multiple monitors make you feel more productive but wat you gain in screen space you lose by aving to manage windows across monitors and by no longer being able to keep your entire screen space in your field of view. You go back to a single monitor setup and it's not actually all tat bad.

 No.110981

How would workspaces factor into this? I use a single monitor but use different workspaces and its quite nice. I am still able todo multiple things at once and can switch back to my main focus

 No.110983

>>110981
I've never managed to get workspaces into my workflow. How do you go about it?

 No.110986

i NEVER use workspaces

 No.110987

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I've been sticking with two monitors for about a decade now, but one of them is technically a TV so it's larger but with worse colors, response time, and 1080p instead of 1440p. It's kind of funny that the big screen has fewer pixels than the smaller one.
I barely use the second one in a way that could be said to be "active", but I do put chat screens there and sometimes videos that I can listen to and watch in the corner of my eye.
I kind of want a third monitor, another small one, but my desk is shaped like an L and I'd have to do some major shifting around to make it work.

 No.110988

>>110983
I have it on a hotkey combo, Super + <Number>. This allows me to quickly switch between them. I usually have a browser on my first workspace, and the second is the main content, for example. It's useful for quickly looking up things when I'm working on something. The third and beyond I use for other stuff like communication applications, tools like easyeffects or a music player

 No.110989

I like to have documentation open on the second monitor. Or maybe the application running that I'm working on. When I make music I have my sample browser and metering on the second screen. I think I'm doing better with two.

 No.110992

>>110979
not good

 No.110999

>>110980
>Multiple monitors make you feel more productive but wat you gain in screen space you lose by aving to manage windows across monitors and by no longer being able to keep your entire screen space in your field of view.
If you're constantly going back and forth between monitors, then you're using multi-monitors wrong. For example, having a documentation page on one screen and something that you're working on in the main screen is a case where multiple monitors is objectively better than a single monitor. It is infinitely more convenient to be able to simply turn your head, read, and go back to your work on your main monitor than it is to cycle between windows, or have multiple windows open at once, on a single screen.

 No.111004

I thought this was going to be about ultrawide vs. dual, but it sounds like it's just an issue with dedicating one monitor to social stuff.

>>110999
Sometimes it's better to do that on a single, bigger monitor. If you've got a terminal and documentation open, neither needs a lot of horizontal space, so putting them side-by-side on a 1440 monitor gives you more usable space than splitting them between two 1080 monitors. That is pretty niche, though, and you could always flip your monitors if that's your main use-case.

 No.111011

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other than the rare circumstances where i need to drag and drop between multiple programs that are only usable on widescreens at once, i find workspaces superior

 No.111013

There's probably a linux distro that's gotten the workspace concept down well enough that instead of looking somewhere else you can train yourself to change the screen space with a keybind.
Linux Mint's Ctrl+Alt+Up or Ubuntu's Meta key is pretty good. I'd like something a bit keybound

 No.111432

>>110999
>If you're constantly going back and forth between monitors, then you're using multi-monitors wrong
Maybe I'm using them wrong at home but correctly at the place of empl_yment then. Over there I have it all set up nice so my code windows are in the middle, my chat and email are on the left where I can cover them up with more code windows or internet browser, my git client is always on the right, and so on.
But at home I don't have a set pattern. Everything's on every screen.

 No.111433

>>111004
>Sometimes it's better to do that on a single, bigger monitor.
I'm still not really convinced of this. Unless you're using a program that breaks up your display into multiple display adapters you will eventually run into issues with full screen applications that monopolize your entire screen.

 No.111437

The biggest appeal of 2 monitors is that you can set 1 in portrait orientation for viewing documents. I suppose you *could* get the same effect with a single sufficiently large monitor, but it'd be less cost and space efficient compared to having 2 monitors in different orientations.

 No.111444

I've been using two 1080p 23 in monitors for the longest time and feel like I finally need to upgrade, but 2 of anything larger just seems like it would take up too much space and require too much head movement.

 No.111445

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I still feel like my new wide monitor, which is 3440 x 1440, has enough space on it when I'm heavily multitasking and have a bunch of windows. I have so many windows stacked and it's annoying to get the right one, but maybe this is an issue with how I organize my desktop itself.
But, even if I had the money to buy another one I don't think I would because I don't have anywhere to put it. Would I somehow stack it on top? But that would strain my neck...

 No.111447

>>111445
>I still feel like my new wide monitor, which is 3440 x 1440, has enough space on it when I'm heavily multitasking and have a bunch of windows.
Err, DOESN'T have enough space

 No.111457

>>111433
I never fullscreen anything when I'm working. Chats, email, spreadsheets, code, old ass webapps; none of them need more than half the screen at most. Even when slacking it's better to put a video in the corner and work around it so you can keep everything close to your point of focus at all times.

>>111445
The trick is to size everything differently and arrange them in ways so that there's always a small piece of each window that's peeking out so you can activate it in-line.

 No.111458

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>>111445
>3440 x 1440
your desktop bg

 No.111459

Never black bar, always streeeeetch

 No.111462

>>111458
:D >: |

 No.111493

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I like having 3 monitors (each 27 inch and 1440p). one for videos, one for general internet browsing and 1 for any chat or side webpage I want up for information if I'm playing a game or something. I was using 2 monitors and a tv but having a big tv right in my face was pointless so I switched to a normal monitor.

 No.129633

>>110979
I used to have around 24 monitors for work a while ago so at home I've always just liked having one

 No.129655

I only use one monitor. I tried two but the second was just distracting and I really don't have a need for two monitors.

 No.129774

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>multiple displays
A fancy way of ruining your focus and attention span for sure.

 No.129815

>>110979
On my side monitor, half is my music player and half is whatever else: chat, music from youtube, etc.




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