Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Hello Mark,
On 2015-03-22 21:07, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
No, but an observation if I may. A few months ago I moved from a couple
of large (in their day) Multisync LCDs mounted flat, to 4x slightly
I've used two 19" wide screen monitors for 2 years (a couple years back)
and absolutely loved it. I can maybe see myself up to 3 monitors, but 4
seems a bit excessive for work. But I fully appreciate everybody's needs
are different. I would love to see a photo of your setup if you don't
mind sharing. How do you layout your apps?
It's a very basic 2x2 arrangement, which effectively preserves the
aspect ratio of the constituent screens. Not worth photographing at the
moment, since one screen has gone down with "capacitor plague" and is
awaiting repair (plus point: the others are unaffected). However, a bit
more on the (Linux) implementation...
I've got two identical machines under my desk and was hoping to be able
to use xdmx to make a single seamless display. However this turned out
to be woefully inadequate in terms of both performance and reliability,
and I ended up with x2x to allow me to share keyboard and mouse and NFS
for /home and /usr/local. The practical result is that I'm able to e.g.
run Lazarus on the bottom screens plus an instance of the program for
testing on the top ones, it's usable but has the major issue that
cut-and-paste is a hassle.
In light of experience so far, if I had the budget and didn't have a
development commitment that required multiple machines, I'd lean towards
a single quiet box under my desk with enough (ATI) cards to drive 4x or
whatever screens.
[Remainder noted with interest.]
As I said earlier, I'm starting to have problems with visual
accommodation, my understanding is that it affects everyone as they get
older, and I think it's worth planning for. What I don't know is whether
constantly switching focus between near and medium-distance targets
provides useful exercise or potentially makes things worse.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
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