On 03/17/2017 03:51 AM, Brian Dolbec wrote:
On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 06:58:23 +0000 (UTC)
Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
Brian Dolbec posted on Thu, 16 Mar 2017 01:08:30 -0700 as excerpted:
We could also increase the max. line length to something like
120 or 130.
I think more people should chime in on that. I use vertical splits
for the screen when coding, and 120 characters is too long for me,
but if the preferred width ends up changing to 120 or 130 I can
work with it.
You need to get some large 4K monitors... love them :D I treated
myself to two 28 inch ones during boxing week sales.
My aging eyes love them :) They are so much better than my old 24
inch 1080p monitors. Those were getting tired/starting to loos
clarity along with my eyes working at them all week long. I now
work with larger fonts which are still physically smaller than my
old monitors, but sooooo much clearer. My eyes don't get nearly so
tired as they did with my other monitors.
</bragging> ;)
Posting resistance failing...
Try a 65-inch 4K with a 48-inch 1080p (now the older monitor, often
running youtube full-screen) off to the side. =:^)
(They're actually TVs used as monitors via the HDMI input, no actual
TV hooked up. Above about 32-inch, TVs tend to be cheaper than
stand-alone monitors and of course they're the same 4K high or
full-hd lower resolution these days.)
Six 1280x1080 working windows three wide by two stacked on the 65"
4k, still set for 96 dpi standard, FreeMono Bold 9.0 in my konsole
windows, yields:
$ echo $COLUMNS x $LINES
179 x 78
And that's six of those on the 65" 4K, PLUS the full-screen 1080p
youtube or whatever window on the 48". =:^)
This is the first time I can honestly say I have enough screen space
that most of the time I'm not actively using it all. =:^)
Yeah, I've seen lots of those types of setups.
Just a few years ago when I was an A/C mechanic for my day job, I
serviced A/C systems at numerous business's trading floors, where many
stations ran 2 or 3 pc's mostly to house/power the video cards to
drive 4,6, sometimes 8 monitors in a dual high setups, then numerous big
screens overhead in various places around the floor...
I don't think I could handle the large ones like you have, my eyes
haven't got the focal range for that anymore. As it is, I recently had
to pull my monitors closer about 8 inches because my eyes were getting
too tired by the end of the week. They were just too close to the
limits of my eyes and glasses.
I do need to get a decent video card to drive these new 4K's, then
maybe I'll think about re-connecting the old 24 inch 1080p's back up
to the old card too ;) But if I really needed more screen space, I'd
pick up 2 more of these 4k's, 2 video cards and spin them vertical ;)
That could make for a great driving/flight simulator :D
Since we are off topic and I have crappy eyes that have required a
couple of surgeries. My current setup that works well is two 40" 4K TV's
set to 1080p. Doesn't give me the real estate that 4k would, but my
eyeballs love the big crisp fonts and it is more space than I had before.
