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To those with 2+ monitors on your machine: What's your use case, and how much does it actually boost your productivity? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Mesa@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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 ]

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[–] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Web developer, couldn't go without three monitors. Just three 1080p panels. Center monitor has the code editor, right has the browser, and left has the ticket or designs or the music player or Slack.

[–] mr_satan@monyet.cc 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

2 monitors plus laptop. One is mainly used for IDE and git, other one for anything else that's relevant: browser, Jira, notes, second editor to reference stuff. Laptop screen is to the side and mainly used for chats.

Wouldn't mind a third big screen, often notes, DB, RDC or brower have to be juggled around.

[–] agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago

Used to be the same for me. Two monitors for working, laptop for Outlook.

[–] legios@aussie.zone 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm a dev manager... I have 3x4k monitors. I watch server loads, I watch the build pipeline and watch the commit logs etc.

Overkill these days, but I'm also a gamer sooooo....

[–] Hupf@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago

So besides looking at the blinkenlights, you let your team to all of the work, right?