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Wow! And you are surfing Code Project with 3 of those monitors!
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Marc.. i feel shame.. *haha*
know what i'm doing? i use VNC to access all my pcs...
perhaps, some of my pc doesn't have monitor, so it is still ok. but not ok for those notebook!
from,
-= aLbert =-
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And here I thought 'Throw Disance' meant the minimum distance at which you placed your 2-year old so the food they threw at or up would not spoil the finish on your new High Definition 51" television...
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On my coding boxes I have 2 19in monitors at work and 2 21in at home. I do spend some time on two workstations that I designed for research that have 3 to 5 grayscale monitors with (2048 x 2560) resolution each. My laptops only have one screen (most of the time)...
John
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Going back to a single-monitor setup is torture--two is my minimum.
I use a dual monitor setup at work, but have four at home.  I think I've reached the limit of usefulness, anything else would be a waste (to me) as I hardly ever use the fourth one.  There's also the problem of fitting 4 monitors on a desk (3 are LCDs, but still...)
The next step is to get a bigger desk...anyone knows of decent furniture CAD-type software? Free, preferably?
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U workstation desks work great for multi-monitor setups. I have one at work, 2x 24" sit directly front and the other two, Cintiq right, Laptop left sit on the corners. works great. Can't afford it, or fit it at home though....
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Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau.
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I'm lucky cause I've an IBM A30p which provides a 1600*1200 native screen, and allows to connect a monitor. Very good to develop with multiples wiondows (or sql server and .net)
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FWIW, another developer here has a little utility that turns remove machines (like a laptop sitting on yer desk) into another monitor, so that you can then use it like a second (third, etc.) display.
I do not remember the name of it (NetView, or something like that, I think...), but it seems interesting.
Peace!
-=- James
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Damn.
Somebody must have a big desk!
Michael
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... and a big wallet..
An expert is somebody who learns more and more about less and less, until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
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more than probably, he works FOR someone with a big wallet.
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Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau.
Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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or multiple computers.... I answered 2, because my primary computer has two... but then I stopped to think about it, the question really was "Do you use multiple monitors at work? If so how many?." I have 2 monitors, Cintiq, and a laptop. My two primary computers are linked to one shared monitor then one has the 2nd 24" the other the Cintiq, the laptop can share the one shared monitor too, but I rarely do.
I have used a 4 monitor (2x2) display for shows, but I don't use it at my desk. I will occasionally configure my computers in a shared rendering frame to test code for large monitor displays at shows, but that is rare. So although I did answer 2, I can see easily how someone can answer more.
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Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau.
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Might be nice to have two, but I think it'd be overkill. While I often have a lot of windows open, it's rare that I am actually using more than one simultaneously... so I just maximise the one I'm using. And the "auto-hide" feature of the taskbar is pretty nice (well, until some app "swallows" it... Visual Studio and Eclipse seem to be particularly bad about that...)
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Navin wrote:
Might be nice to have two, but I think it'd be overkill.
It has been a while since I had a dual monitor system to use. It was a big boon for debugging. One monitor showing the debugger and source-code whilst the second monitor displayed the app. (Especially useful with DirectX and paint code)
Michael
CP Blog [^]
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which is exactly why when I ordered ONE 24" LCD at work, my boss doubled it (well, actually quadroupled it, and kept two for himself). I never had dual displays until it was bought for me, now I can't live without them. One has fullscreen app, the other the debuggers, loggers, and other task monitoring apps.
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Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Michael P Butler wrote:
It has been a while since I had a dual monitor system to use.
When I go to a new assignment/position, I always bring along a old-style PCI video card! Most places have older monitors lying around anyway; I can get myself up-and-dual-running in no time.
I have been known to start a dual-monitor trend on occasion... 
Peace!
-=- James
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exactly! graphic debugging need at least 2, for my case one desttop and one notebook.
remote debugging, this is to speed up the work, otherwise funny problem, odd problem are hard to debug.
from,
-= aLbert =-
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I use the primary monitor for the good stuff (browsing CP, reading blogs, VC) and the secondary for junk like email and VSS. 
I have the two sitting side-by-side, but I orient the virtual desktop like this:
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+---+ So to move the cursor to the right monitor, I move the mouse down. This way I can still slam the mouse to the top-right corner of the mouse pad to reach the [X] button on an app that's maximized on the primary monitor. The only bad part is that I have to aim carefully for the Taskbar, since it's at the bottom of monitor 1, which is in the middle of the virtual desktop.
On the upside, when someone else comes to use my system, I get to see them freak out trying to move the cursor to the second monitor. 
--Mike--
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And I thought *I* liked to complicate things 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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It could be worse. One of the guys I work with mouse's with his left hand, and reverses the buttons  It's really jarring when he's logged-in on our lab machines (he'll tend to leave the mouse on the right side of the keyboard in that case)  .
Did I mention he's color-blind, and sets the desktop to black  ?
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Oh monitor what is monitor , is it a lizard ?
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