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?

Comments

[Darío Kondratiuk]

I'm using a Mac with 2 externals monitors (left and right):

• I'm using 4 virtual desktops in mac
  • 1 slack
  • 2 browsers
  • 3 Skype
  • 4 Whats app
• Right monitor: Full screen Windows VM
• Left monitor: everything else in a messy desktop, email, Trello board, terminals, etc, etc

[Sean Dempsey]

Macbook pro (late 2016) on the left with two HD Dell monitors (center and right). MBP for iTerm, center is browser, right is Atom editor. Most everything else hangs out in the background of center.

[Dimitar Stoyanov]

My IDE/Editor on the left monitor, browser on the center monitor and I have found it helpful to have an extra monitor for RDP or Database although not necessary.

[Seth Michael Larson]

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.

[Andrii Los]

1. Browser
2. IDE (internal terminal)
3. Chats 1/1/1. Outlook, Slack, Telegram. And Spotify on the background in the first third, cause Outlook is not that useful usually.

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...

[Rayy Benhin]

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+`

[Marcelo Alves 🐙]

I have one 4K monitor and usually have terminals along the bottom (single window, multiple panels), text editor in the left and browser to the right. Slack and everything else in the background or another desktop

[Dídac]

I work with a 24" screen and multiple workspaces (Ubuntu Gnome):

1 - Browser (with multiple pinned tabs like Inbox and Github )
2 - Terminal (Terminator with column/row splitter)
3 - Sublime Text(two column mode)
4 - Slack
5 - Spotify

[David Muckle]

Two monitors, larger 23" is the primary, smaller display secondary on left.

Primary {

    Browser

    IDE / Editor

}

Secondary {

    "Team chat" (IRC)

    Browser (Sometimes, only if needed for whatever I'm working on in the primary)

}

And terminals everywhere. I had a drop down terminal in my primary but for some reason that now does not want to move away from my secondary.

[Stephanie Handsteiner]

Three virtual desktops on the Mac:

1. The left one is my browser and occasionally opened apps like the calendar, todos, pages or something, oh... and Spotify.
2. The centre one is my Editor and Terminal.
3. The right one contains all my chat apps (Discord, Slack, Telegram, ...), Twitter and the e-mail client.

Either looked at on the internal macbook screen (like now, while I'm typing this) or mirrored to an 24" monitor sitting on my desk.

[Perren Smith]

Wesley gets it. Same arrangement here.