Re: [xmonad] Delays in focus update...

Don Stewart [2012.02.06 1808 -0500]:

Multiple monitors - eg four - are common in financial market work, where keeping lots of customized data tiled on screen, at all times, can have a significant productivity advantage. Screen real estate is valuable!

It's also nice for devs who keep lots of scripts and tools monitoring their work.

Well, I'm actually a plain old academic and wouldn't want to miss my four monitors any more. It helps to be able to have a preview of the paper one is writing one one screen (in portrait mode so a whole page is visible at a readable zoom factor), having maybe a paper one needs to discuss in a "previous work" section on a different portrait monitor and, in between, on the remaining two monitors, editor, drawing program, shell, ... It's not hard to fill four monitors and use a workflow that would be significantly less efficient with fewer monitors. Then again, I of course survived quite happily with two monitors before, and with a single 17" monitor before that. As hardware gets cheaper, one says, "Why not. It makes work easier and more enjoyable." Cheers, Norbert

On Monday, February 6, 2012, Philipp Haselwarter wrote:

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completely skipping on your question, but you just got me curious -- what kind of task do you work on that allows/requires you to use four monitors? I just upgraded to two, giving me 3840x1200 which is really comfortable for having Emacs on one screen and firefox or whatever else on the other, but that's about as much as I can deal with at one time. just made me wonder =)

-- Philipp Haselwarter

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