6 Jul
2014
6 Jul
'14
5:11 p.m.
On Sun, 6 Jul 2014, Joe Hartley wrote:
I'm definitely in the "must have dual
monitor" camp for the editor & mixer
windows. Add to that the nearfield audio monitors on either side of the
video monitors, and I'm out of desk space!
I just joined that camp. I don't think I could go back now. At $99 for a
monitor and most video cards supporting at least two (my video controler
should do three, but the MB doesn't have the connector) it just works.
Besides, I've used window managers with virtual
desktops since my days with
the Amiga and Sun's OpenWindows so I can jump from my Ardour desktop
to my developer desktop to my web desktop in a moment. I can't imagine
working without virtual desktops; it is weird to me that MacOS only
started supporting them 5 years ago and that Windows apparently *still*
doesn't have the capability.
Even weirder that some of the Linux DEs (the KDE in Kubuntu) are starting
to hide that capability by default. I do like the new gnome deal that adds
new virtual desktops as you use them... as soon as you use desktop two, it
adds three.
The one thing I'd like is to have a screen to play
videos on but since I
still can't figure out how to make YouTube stay full-screen on one monitor
when I'm working on another my motivation for settung up screen 3 is low.
I think this has to do with the player application rather than DE.
libreoffice impress can use one full screen for display while using the
other for application control. Maybe that works because it is still the
same app in the second window. But it just seems to work for me.
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Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net