On 3/26/2012 10:58 AM, Ethan Furman wrote:
Glenn Linderman wrote:
On 3/26/2012 10:19 AM, R. David Murray wrote:
Like Philip, I have *one* window. My window manager (ratpoison) is
more
like 'screen' for X: you *can* split the window up, but it is *much*
more
useful to have only one window visible at a time, most of the time.
I'm amazed at the number of people that use maximized windows, one
application at a time. I have 2 1600x1200 displays, with 10-30
overlapping windows partially visible, and sometimes wish I had 3
displays, so I could see more windows at a time... but then I'd have
to turn my head more, so maybe this is optimal. Two displays lets me
get my autohidden taskbar in the vertical center, for quick access
from either side.
I also have two monitors, I use goScreen for three virtual desktops
(I'm stuck with XP -- which is to say MS), and each application I use
is full-screen while I'm using it. I find windows that I'm not using
at that moment a distraction.
Interesting. I guess I'm always distracted :) But I often need data or
information from multiple applications in order to make progress on a
project... which is why each application seldom gets maximized. I even
use multiple Firefox profiles concurrently, to have multiple browsers
open for different purposes, as well as multiple tabs within each of
them. Sometimes I even need multiple instances of Emacs, as well as
multiple windows for a single instance, but that is usually very
temporary, due to an interruption (distraction).
So my pet peeve about web sites is those that, although they seem to
dynamically adjust to different monitor sizes, seem to miscalculate, and
display a horizontal scroll bar, and consistently chop stuff off on the
right edge of my non-maximized window.
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