On Tue, 19 May 2009 09:17:31, Joe Shisei Niski <[email protected]> wrote: > ...At the office, i tried using a second 1200x1024 monitor but found > that the amount of head-turning required to use both displays was > uncomfortable. Two 17" 1920 x 1200 displays might be interesting, but > a single large display + gnome's multiple desktops feels more > ergonomic than any other setup i've tried.
I've never used a dual-head setup. That said, though, I think it would depend on your application. For general use, I imagine you're right, it would get to be uncomfortable. But for certain specialized apps, I think the dual-head setup would be quite useful. At work, one of the PCB designers has such a setup. One screen is dedicated to the actual layout graphics. That's all that's displayed, and it's where the designer spends the bulk of his time. The other screen has the usual Windows stuff, plus the control window(s) for the CAD package. Only occasionally does he have to use that one. (Multiple desktops on one screen, ala Gnome or Enlightenment, would work just as well, I'm sure.) ---------- On Tue, 19 May 2009 10:54:36, Larry W <[email protected]> wrote: > If an application insists on operating at full screen with no resize > options, I would want to have a monitor that can accept two video > inputs, like from a dual-head card. A full-screen app would then > take up on more than half the screen, but I could still expand a wide > application across both halves. Is this what you mean by >"side-by-side windows"? No, it isn't. I meant something like two shell windows, or an editor and a PS/PDF viewer window, tiled horizontally on the screen. (Frankly, I think any application that won't let me resize its window is broken, and I'd probably get rid of it. Even on Windows I haven't seen that sort of nonsense in a long time. If you're stuck having to use something like that, you have my sympathies.) > > Dale Snell wrote: > > (Larry W wrote): > > > Now, two SXGA displays seamlessly side by side would be my idea of > > > widescreen. > > But you've got all that bezel and frame stuff between them! That's > not seamless to my eyes! :-) :-) > > Right, but I wasn't talking two monitors. I would want to see one > large panel, driven by a dual-head card. For me, that would be the > best of both the widescreen and dual display worlds. Ah, now that's an arrangement I've not heard of before; it sounds interesting. Unfortunately, there's only one DVI port on my Samsung, so I can't experiment. --Dale -- Never try to out-stubborn a cat. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
