I’m mainly curious about software developers here, or anyone else whose computer is somewhat central to their life, be it professional or hobbyist.
I only have two monitors—one directly in front of me, and another to the right of it, angled toward me. For web development, I keep my editor on the main screen, and anything auxiliary (be that a dev build, a video, StackOverflow, etc.) on the side screen.
I wouldn’t mind a third monitor, and if I had one, I’d definitely use it for log/output, since currently it’s a floating window that I shuffle around however necessary. It could be smaller than the other two, and I might even turn it vertical so I could split the screen between output and a terminal, configuring a AutoHotKey script to focus the terminal.
What about y’all?
[ cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13864053 ]
Backend dev. I have an ultrawide (like two monitors in one).
Sometimes I need to test the full stack and need a lot (8+) terminals. I try to tile them all on a separate virtual desktop.
Most commonly though, I center my main application and can have two smaller, peripheral applications, one on each side.
When doing full stack, I need a browser, IDE and two terminals, tiled to give more space for the browser.