On 01/17/2016 10:05 AM, [email protected] wrote:
On Sunday, January 17, 2016 08:10:38 AM you wrote:
The usual pattern is that people ask about multiple screens but do not
really want them. Having multiple screens only limits what you can do
and gives you no meaningful benefits.
On my previous system (which I used for about 5 years) I used multiple screens
(driven by an NVidia card) to great benefit. My current system (started using
about 6 months ago) has a 32" monitor so I no longer feel the need for
multiple screens.
On some of the industrial (process control) systems I've been responsible for,
we put up to 4 monitors (with different displays) driven by one computer in
front of a single operator.
I have to admit that the Linux / X window (and successor) terminology
confurses me--when I say multiple screens, I mean multiple monitors driven by
a single PC and different content on each, and, ideally (but not always the
case) the ability to move content between displays and copy and paste to and
from each.
To say that nobody can get any meaningful benefits from multiple screens (or
from anything else) implies a degree of omniscience (sp?) that I'm not sure
you have.
I probably should have written this and filed it in my drafts folder, but
sometimes I don't do what is best for myself. ;-)
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Thanks rhkramer,
I appreciate the vote of confidence. Perhaps "separate X screens" is
something which only a small percentage of user are multi-tasking enough
to take advantage of. However, I am one of them. I do appreciate
assistance and suggestions from other users as to how to accomplish what
I am working on. I do not necessarily appreciate being told I do not
want to do what I want to do.
As to a HUGE monitor... I had thought about that. I could run 4 virtual
machines each taking up 1/4 of the display. But I just purchases two
nice Dell 24" Ultrasharp 19:10 aspect ratio monitors. The left one is
vertical and the right one horizontal. The vertical one is usually
divided in half - Thunderbird on the top half and a virtual machine
connected to my secure email at protonmail.ch on the bottom. I call up
Firefox when I need it over top of the two or I may switch to another
workspace first. On the right monitor I often have several things going
on 3 or 4 workspaces.
Ken
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