You can use a software called LittleBigMouse to make this better. It's really nice in my experience with 2 1080p screens and one 4k. All roughly the same size
This would 100% be my setup if I could use more than two monitors. I am incapable of having just one project at at time open, and this would just work so well for me.
I'm sort of that. I've got two landscape and one portrait monitor, the portrait one is good for browsing websites like this one where there's a lot of vertical text. I actually find myself preferring the landscape ones for coding since my IDE has a lot of stuff in sidebars and also some of the lines of text are very long.
I'm chaotic neutral too but I don't code on the diagonal monitor. I only have it diagonal because my neck hurts looking at the side screen if I have them both horizontal lol
Don't take the chart seriously. Pretty much all of these setups are good for their uses and are done by someobdy, even certain forms of "chaotic evil".
I'm a mix between chaotic neutral and lawful neutral. I have a vertical monitor on my left which is mainly for slack + documents. Center screen for code and what ever I'm focused on and laptop screen on the right for calendar, email, other not in focus things.
I am technically, but I almost never turn on my second (vertical) monitor. Usually when I have my main set to a different source and I want something from my desktop PC on the other monitor.
It's still going to be better than screen on budget laptops. I am convinced my laptop's screen is 30Hz and it surely wasn't manufactured to produce colors.
You can tell xrandr anything, it doesn't have to be physically connected. So you could get 3960x1080 virtual screen space for a single vertical HD screen. If you move your mouse to the edge of the screen it will scroll what is visible. I discovered it in my triple monitor setup. I turn off screens I don't need (they waste like 30W!), but the script I wrote to notify X11 of these changes doesn't work as reliably as I would like, lol. Also duplicate polybar sometimes, haha.
Not sure how useful this is, because while the application thinks it has all this screen space available you can't actually see all of it at once.
Even at thrift stores it's usually not too hard to find a pair with matching size and resolution which are the two big considerations. Getting screens with identical pixel sizes makes all the difference.
It was the only way I could get my monitors connected to my standing desk. Now I only need to figure out if subjecting hard drives to motor vibrations is risky, or if they can handle a bit of shaking when switching between sitting and standing.
Yeah man! I have a wifi receiver/repeater, UPS, audio mic amplifier, and the PC mounted under. I move every 6 months and this lets me simplify having a workspace. I like being able to wheel the desk around.
I'm Chaotic Neutral (although my vertical monitor is on the left). It was an experiment that stuck because I like being able to read more lines of code at once.
Unfortunately I got it at a thrift shop and there are no stickers.
Googling for "pulley lamp" shows me one that looks very similar:
"Carbon Loft Tirith Industrial Farmhouse Table Lamp with Pulley System"
One thing I will say: anyone who has a single window spanned across multiple monitors needs battering. "Oh, yah, I fookin' love 'aving un two-centimeter black bar in middul of me Word doccumant". Unhinged sociopaths, all of them.
Chaotic good, one 32" 2560×1440 display, one old 19" 1280×1024 display (mainly used for referencing docs, for a debugger, or watching a VTuber or a conference presentation).
I've got my laptop, main 32" inch monitor, and a 27" vertical monitor on the other side. So am I a lawful chaotic neutral? Chaotic lawful neutral? Truly true neutral? Also, one is connected through HDMI and the other is connected through DVI.
I'm a reverse Lawful Neutral; laptop on the left, monitor on the right.
Before that I had a 16:9 monitor on the left and a 4:3 monitor on the right. That doesn't seem to be in the chart anywhere.
Seriously, someone needs to start making high-quality 4:3 monitors again. Sure, they're not great for movies and modern video games, but they're great for reading.
I use a 42" 4K monitor. Same working area as 4 x 21" 1920x1080 screens but more flexible. Been doing so for ~10 years. When my old 39" 4K monitor broke I used 2 x 24 inch monitors + laptop screen for a while but I ended up buying another big monitor instead, it's just so convenient.
4k is clutch, I have this, tiled windows, and universal zoom enabled so I can zoom on one thing and the 4k means it's perfectly legible, the zoom out for the full view
Not a programmer, but I run Neutral Good + Lawful Neutral at the office, because my work issued a docking station with two symmetrical monitors, but they also issued me a laptop instead of a desktop, so what am going to do, not use the third monitor?
So, it's ugly, but it works since I either put baseball on one of the big monitors or Spotify on the laptop, and work on the other two.
Chaotic good but smaller monitor is on the left, only because I had one shitty monitor I got on sale right out of high school and eventually bought a much nicer but slightly smaller one later.
I have a good 27" as my main, but I don't have space for a 2nd 27" to either side -- best I can fit is a 24". So I guess I'm chaotic good by (forced) choice.
So, Lawful Neutral is just broke? Hunh... (Counts on fingers: druids, monks, cloistered scholars...) Yeah, that tracks.
Also, ofc I'm Chaotic Neutral. Pfft. I blame Elite Dangerous, as I was once Neutral Good, but then discovered what the game was like on an Index, and then there was no reason for the monitors to start that way anymore. 🤷🏼♂️
I guess I'm chaotic neutral. I've never had enough money to buy two of the same monitor. All of my stuff is stuff I got either for free from school or for extremely cheap.
Due to a mistake I made, I'm chaotic good instead of neutral good. Current set-up is a 27" 1080p HDMI on the left, and 24" 1080p VGA on the right. Not too much in a hurry to replace my smaller monitor though, I need to upgrade my graphics card first to allow for a HDMI-HDMI configuration at least.
So if you have a monitor hooked up to a desktop on the left, and a separate laptop running a different OS on the right, is it lawful neutral or true neutral x 2?
A neat trick I learned recently. The vertical /smaller/secondary monitor should go on different sides for different people. Hold a finger close to your face and close one eye and then the other. Whichever eye more closely matches the both-eye image is your dominant eye and is where your secondary monitor should go.
Once I got a widescreen monitor, I finally ditched the rest and only use my laptop as the extra screen. So lawful neutral but set up like lawful evil but lower.
So, would using a monitor and a phone screen be lawful neutral too? Because that's what I usually do if I need to look up things for whatever I'm doing and don't want to boot up my desktop web browser.
two screens same size to the front, laptop on a riser to my left, at a right angle, third, smaller screen to the left of that connected to a second laptop
I think the closest is chaotic good although I have three monitors, two smaller ones on each side and a bigger one in the center so kinda lawful good too.
I'm both chaotic good and lawful neutral, depending if it's for my job or not. I suppose that's a fair assessment of the difference between my professional character and home character.
Lol my set up is a 22" 1080p on the left for basic web viewing, 28" 1440p center for games, and a 32" 1080p on the right for videos/twitch while I'm playing games
i have chaotic neutral right now -- would it be insane to have the middle monitor be vertical then the side be horizontal? i usually use the horizontal for videos or sports but that makes more sense off to the side, then vertical is great for scrolling
I have chaotic neutral setup for quite a while. Like 15 years lol. The vertical started out as a monitor for the Photoshop palettes and this kind of stuff. Then it became the monitor for checking websites in 1024px and nowadays it's mostly terminal windows. I love to have a great scope of output in the viewport.
Used to be a chaotic neutral, but realised that a full screen video doesn't work well with a display in portrait orientation (and even if I have a laptop below, it's too small). Neutral good right now with two 27"s; might add a 34" later on.
I'm the opposite. I can't have two monitors of the same size, because then it's like they're both primaries in my brain. With the chaotic good arrangement, it's very clear which one runs the games and which one runs YouTube or what have you
True neutral right now, but since I'm already here, does anyone know if curved monitor is viable as a secondary display? I already have the monitor around, but since it's not rotatable I can't really try this setup for myself.
It'd be 27' 1440p flat horizontally (main) and 24' 1080p curved vertically next to it.
I was Lawful Neutral, but gave my monitors to my wife in exchange for a better single monitor. Nothing special, just a 27" Samsung w/ a high refresh rate and richer blacks that I found difficult to achieve with my old monitors. I found that I rarely (if ever) used both of them. Only while looking up information in MMOs like Classic WoW, but I play those so seldom these days that I'm getting a lot out of a single.