Where is the editor, the console, the browser, team chat apps, etc.? Do you have a consistent routine, or do you have flexibility here?
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Where is the editor, the console, the browser, team chat apps, etc.? Do you have a consistent routine, or do you have flexibility here?
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Just curious — anyone using a vertical monitor orientation to write code?
I tried but could not get used to having one monitor vertically and one horizontally.
I used vertical setup more for reading documentation more than coding itself.
I have a similar setup as Wesley. Two 22 inch monitors, one each side of my mac book.
Browser and evernote goes to the external monitor-1 (To the Left). I don't keep any other windows besides the work(mostly Android studio) that I'm currently working on my MacBook screen.
External Monitor 2 is set vertically which I use it for terminal primarily for the purpose of logs. I do open the terminal in my MacBook Screen, If I'm writing any script. But usually my terminals are in the vertical monitor.
@taylor Initially it was little weird to look at vertical monitor. But I got used to it. Been using it for 4 months now.
One person I know who did used vertical for email. It was a narrow screen though. But, it got it off your main screens.
I used it for a few days. Could not get adjusted to it, as all other applications, other than the IDE, felt out of place on it.
I did for a while and liked it but never formed the habit, and I set my next monitor up horizontally without thinking about it much. Would be interested to hear what others prefer here.
A coworker who tried it had similar feedback. He's not a developer per se, but someone who occasionally writes prototype code. One large, wide monitor with multiple columns in Sublime etc was his choice.
I'd love to be able to get something wide enough that I can comfortably do 3-4 columns in Sublime.
I often don't even have the laptop screen open, if I do, it's email/chat/Spotify.
I like the giant widescreen monitor. Ironically, I like having only one program / one window open at a time if I can.
The huge monitor does give me the flexibility to put two or even 3 windows side by side.
I'm on macOS, so I use Spectacle to use shortcuts to move windows around. The commands only conflict with Xcode.
I use Ubuntu as my operating system, two virtual desktops, the left one I use for the browser, and the right one I use for the coding related stuff, (VSCode, Multiple terminals, etc...).
I got used to the switching, and it's really good in my opinion.
All of them are virtual. So IDE is in the center, and two others are left or right of IDE.
And I prefer single screen setup same way as Cory House.
hackernoon.com/why-i-stopped-using...
Similar setup here
IDE in the middle, browser to the left, miscellaneous apps to the right.
I summon the terminal from whichever screen I'm on with ctrl+`
I'm using a Mac with 2 externals monitors (left and right):
Using i3, I only have windows on one screen.
I have a single workspace on my laptop screen, mostly used for Mattermost or reference things (it should look like this).
Most of the time I work on the external monitor, with workspace 2 being my browser and workspace 3 containing whatever I need to code (vim, terminal, ..). On workspace 10 I have my communications (Thunderbird, Gajim).
I'm a unity developer so I have a 4K monitor horizontal in the center with two 24" monitors vertical on either side of the main. On the right I have visual studio and on the left I have chrome.
The only annoying thing is when I switch to photoshop, audition, handbrake, etc because I don't like having to switch back and forth on the 4K.
Also, pro tip if you do use 4K monitor on windows with scaling turned to 150% (so the text is actually readable) some unity windows will actually disappear into the void if you maximize a torn off one. Switching back to 100% scaling brings them back but ughhh took way to long to figure that out one day. :)
At home I use one massive 34" curved monitor and typically have PyCharm, console and GitHub on either side.
At work I have three 28" monitors and typically have PyCharm, console, Swarm+Jira, and Perforce.
Prefer transparent windows to multiple monitors or virtual desktops. e.g., It's easy to watch a tutorial and try out the code in the foreground. Likewise to have documentation/code reference open while coding.
twitter.com/sivarajTweets/status/7...
two externals plus laptop,
on the left: first external screen with IDE and Code (main screen)
in the center: second external screen with browser/debugger (research screen)
on the right: laptop with slack/email/other distracting stuff (communication screen)