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Ben Halpern
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How do you arrange your screens/multiple desktops?

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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Alex Escalante

I have the latest iMac 5k 27". I just have two desktops, one for developing and other for everything else: mail, etc…

27" at 5k is a lot of space. Visible at all times:

  • Two iTerm terminals: one for my front-end, another one for my backend
  • Sublime, plenty of space!
  • Spotify
  • Skype
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Kalle Ott

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)

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Filip Vidak

Don't have constant routine but what I need to work on or use the most is on my laptop's screen (15.6")which is right in front of me. Something that aids me, be it a browser tabs with what I need, some other piece of code or anything else is on 2nd monitor (21") which is on the left of laptop. Everything else which might be useful is on the right monitor (17").
It highly depends on what and in what I'm working. Different setup for VS, Ecplise, Android Studio, casual situations...

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Angie the Fairytale

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Angie the Fairytale

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Akar

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.

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Edwin Klesman

MBP pro 2017 with touchbar. One desktop is for social media mail slack etc. One is my coding desktop (chrome debugging, Xamarin in VS for Mac and mobile simulators) one my browsing one and one for everything else. When coding this setup runs on mbp and second display.

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Sivaraj Ambat

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...

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Adrian B.G.

1 display for communication (chat, email, git, asana etc)
1 display for code, source files, resources, active workspace, CLI etc
1 display for the result (unity3d preview, test results, or the website if is a website etc with hot push or auto refresh, monitoring if debugging servers, etc)

Everything raised on the eye level, when I'm standing straight.

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alex

Always Mac on the right with slack, then the big monitor with Vscode left, Terminal bottom right and postman/safari top right ( 4K gives you a lot of space 😂 )