Philip Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 if I weren't so lazy, I would make a poll to see how many people have > 1 monitor since it seems quite common on here How many monitors do you have? (And if you have several, what configuration do you have them in... like [ 3rd ] [ primary ] [ 2nd ] ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 Hehe.... Anyway, 2. [Primary][secondary] When coding, I typically keep the code on the left screen in an IDE (Netbeans usually) and the result on the right screen (webpage, CLI app, whatever). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Little Guy Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 I have 2 on one computer, the monitor and a TV. Depending on what I am doing, is how I set them up... - Movies/Television: clone - Video/photo editing: Dual - Anything else: clone I also have my laptop next to me playing my music if that counts... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 I've never understood cloning screens unless it's something like a presentation onto a projector (or a similar situation just with screens). So much wasted space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 I've just got the one on my laptop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zq29 Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 I have 3 / 5. Technically, there are three hooked up to my dev machine, but I have a further laptop either side with everything running Synergy (one k/b & mouse controlling everything). [MacBook] [Dev 2] [Dev 1] [Dev 3] [Vista Laptop] The MacBook is for testing in browsers under OS X, the Vista is for testing in browsers under Windows. Generally, the dev machine is used like so... [Dev 1] IDE [Dev 2] Browser [Dev 3] phpMyAdmin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cags Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 I'm not sure if you'd count me as 1 or 2. I have a 22" Samsung LCD monitor but my PC is also hooked up to my 42" Plasma (my 50" was delivered this morning, need to get it up on the wall though) as an extended desktop. I generally have it so I can watch videos etc. on the Plasma whilst browsing the web or scripting etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 At work I have 3 all 3 setup to different computers which I connect to each other using: http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ [ Monitor 1] [ Monitor 2 ] [ Monitor 3 ] The 3 different computers allows me to do 3 separate tasks, such as creating images etc. I do not code for my job, so they are not used for coding at all, just viewing different documents / email / setting up images etc, I also use a KVM switch so I can use just that particular computer if I need to. 3 x the processing power is pretty nice, cause I do not get slowed down when I am pushing images to computers or making them etc, which is nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philip Posted December 17, 2009 Author Share Posted December 17, 2009 How do you guys like using synergy? I haven't had a chance to play with it before, but I wouldn't mind trying it soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zq29 Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 How do you guys like using synergy? I haven't had a chance to play with it before, but I wouldn't mind trying it soon Works great for me, it even shares a clipboard, which is handy sometimes! Although, there is an annoying bug when both a client and server are running Linux (which is rare for me) when you're trying to insert the @ symbol on a client machine, it comes out as an Omega symbol. The bug has been filed, though it's not been given a high priority... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 With synergy, there is another bug that the right shift does not work as well. Not hard, you just have to remember to use the left shift But so far I like it, it works pretty good for my uses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 I only have 1 monitor. Been wanting to get a 2nd for a while now. But I do also have a laptop, so I may give synergy a go, see how that works out. I might actually like that better than 2 monitors, 1 computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 I might actually like that better than 2 monitors, 1 computer. It is very nice, watching a movies while playing video games or even messing with videos such as compressing / converting DVDs etc. 2 separate processors / memory etc > 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salathe Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 At work I have two ([secondary:Desktop with Vista][Primary:Dev box with Ubuntu]) and at home the screen on my MBP serves me well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 I might actually like that better than 2 monitors, 1 computer. It is very nice, watching a movies while playing video games or even messing with videos such as compressing / converting DVDs etc. 2 separate processors / memory etc > 1 well my desktop is a quad core with 6gb ram so I'm not really worried about resource consumption. Just a matter of screen real estate. My main beef with multiple monitors on one computer is that the task bar does not span multiple monitors, so it doesn't really alleviate the pain of switching between the many things in it. I suppose if I have more screen space I can expand the taskbar to more than one 'line', though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 Wow... Never heard of Synergy before. I might have to try that out later. And by later I mean now. lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 My $0.02: Wow, not sure how I'll like this in the long run, but Synergy is quite nifty at first use. Easy to setup. Mouse transitions smoothly, so on. (Set it up on this box and my laptop.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zq29 Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 My main beef with multiple monitors on one computer is that the task bar does not span multiple monitors, so it doesn't really alleviate the pain of switching between the many things in it. I suppose if I have more screen space I can expand the taskbar to more than one 'line', though. That sounds counter productive, to a degree. Under Gnome, you can create a panel on each screen and add a window list to each of them, therefore having a dedicated "task bar" for each screen - Each one lists the windows that are on their screen. If this functionality isn't built into Windows, maybe there is a third party application that can handle it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 If this functionality isn't built into Windows, maybe there is a third party application that can handle it? There is, I used to use it before I setup my 2 computers I think it was called: multimon. The free version works well. As far as the quadcore, that would be nice I am not that "lucky" to have one of them, I just have a Pentium Centrino processor at work (yea cheap bastards) and at home I am not willing to dish out the cash for a new pc (I have had mine since about 2003 and have upgraded). I mean I am still running a 5400 rpm 80GB IDE hdd and I do not have any Sata ports, it is not USB 2.0 (had to buy a pci card for that) and the Video card is AGP 4x. Maybe one of these days I will want a new pc, but it works just fine for what I use it for (mainly a file/download server) and use my P Centrino laptop to code on. But maybe in the future I will upgrade, so far though it runs as fast as I need it to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 haha well I work from home on my computer so buying a decent computer is in my best interest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oni-kun Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 I have a decent gaming computer, But I remember many moons ago I had an old PII w/ an ATI-Rage Pro II video card, a whopping 8MBs of VRAM! I had to add a second card or something to get a second monitor in, Since it was sorta pre-LCD age I had these 400 pound things. It got too crazy so I was glad I picked up an LCD, 19 inches is perfect, I hate too big , and I hate widescreen, The height is more important to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cags Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 Well I got my 'second monitor' hooked up. Sorting the wires/decorating will have to wait until the new year. [attachment deleted by admin] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
premiso Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 19 inches is perfect, I hate too big , and I hate widescreen, The height is more important to me. I love widescreen and bigger, currently sporting tripple 24" monitors and I love it But as far as height, if you really want Height WS is perfect, as you can rotate the monitor (with most video card software) to display the length of the widescreen, it is great for coding, a ton of height! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Little Guy Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 @cags Nice wallpaper also... what type of cables are you using to hook up the tv to the comp? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zq29 Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 Cags, is that a Denon AVR-1906 (with SYS-56HT speakers) you got there? I have that combo too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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