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Love dual monitor, display on the right code on left and i3-wm, but would like to get used to just using a single monitor/laptop.

by ge96 9y ago

CorvusCrypto 9y ago
I use both. When I am in the office I have almost the same setup you describe. Code on the right on a vertical monitor and the program itself on the left. However when I am on my laptop at home it's not that bad, it's just a bit more work to tab back and forth between the terminal, editor, and program a bit more. This argument about which is better is really silly imo. It's not like tabbing or switching focus is the main waste of time. I'd be willing to bet a lot of people arguing for either side spend more time browsing HN or Reddit than managing their workflow :V (speculation obvs)
- ge96 9y ago
  Interesting the right/left preference. Not sure if that's related to right/left handed or side preference I don't know. Like you read a book from left to right (sorry probably an arbitrary thought). I too thought about the vertical oriented monitor is it good? You see more lines. I like the minmap for VSCode if you happen to use that. To see a code pattern/structure at a glance.
  - lfowles 9y ago
    I had dual monitors at the office and at home. For me it really depended on where my chair was. I have a slight bias toward the left monitor at home, so my primary activity goes there. At work, my chair was slightly biased towards the right monitor so I put primary activities there. (I also experimented with vertical monitor at work, but with the provided monitors the viewing angle was too awful. I bet it would be awesome with the right screens though.)
    - ge96 9y ago
      Haha damn chairs I have this L-shaped desk and I feel cramped on the right side. Ahh man did a data entry job, god I wanted to eat a bullet. Found a good keyboard though. A wired Microsoft 600 or something they're cheap but flat unlike those tall keys on older keyboards.
  - CorvusCrypto 9y ago
    vertical monitor is a blessing and a curse at times. For just coding, it's great because I have more lines to reference at once. However when I show the directory tree for my projects my width is small and sometimes hard to deal with. Same problem with having a mini-map sadly. I actually am right handed and read left-to-right. My dominant screen is my left screen and it used to be my editor screen, but I switched my code to the right because nowadays more of my work is server monitoring, communication, and review of code. The wider screen space is nice for this.
    - ge96 9y ago
      Yeah I do wish min-map only expanded when you hovered over that area, too eager to post issues/requests though on their GitHub. What do you use for server monitoring? Do you have fail overs... I recently implemented server side encryption and was running into memory exhaustion problems, upped cores/ram. Was surprised to read it's bad or less performant when your computer starts using swap. Man $34/mo seems expensive for hosting using t2.medium under Amazon. Ahh well,. I like seeing the nginx worker/php-fpm pool appear in HTOP Edit. Only using PHP as that's currently the back end language I know how to work with and what the stack uses but could see benefits using Go or something.
tmerc 9y ago
I'm not sure how i3-wm compares to Awesome-wm, but I think they're in the same category. I think they're called tags in awesome, and I have 9 per monitor. You assign a tag to a window with hotkeys and can specify the displayed tags with hotkeys. On a single screen, my terminal is tag 3, browser is tag 1. If I need them side by side, I can show multiple tags at once. Otherwise, I switch between them with meta+1 or meta+3. Considering i3 is also tiling, it may have similar features, but I don't know. As to why this vs alt+tab; alt+tab is a cycle of what's open and needs recognition. meta+1 is my browser; meta+3 is my editor. If I have other windows open, they're not on those tags and don't matter in switching.
- ge96 9y ago
  Haven't heard of awesome-wm. I like that idea. Can you save it like a state you know, open some applications, I usually have to open my note taking "app" haha gedit, and then VSCode, FileZilla (I know not a CD), local Host directory and browser. That's a project for me an excuse to learn how to use Electron. Thanks for the tip I like that. I only know how to shift app tabs left haha alt+shift+j but the combining is cool alt+v and then alt+w or alt+e, I was stubborn before about using it but Ubuntu's dealt UI is so bloated. One thing I was looking into was time-tracking how long a panel was active for working on different projects (clients). But I usually max out my 8GB RAM too many chrome tabs.
  - tmerc 9y ago
    I don't know too much about internals, but it has plugins like https://github.com/Elv13/tyrannical https://github.com/Elv13/tyrannical which lets you configure windows to be on certain tags automatically, but as far as I know, there's no save state. That would save me ages when I undock. It supports launching apps when it starts as well. VSCode sounds like windows, though. I know the OSX space of tiling window managers is terrible and it's been years since I've used windows, but bugn was my goto back then.

Love dual monitor, display on the right code on left and i3-wm, but would like to get used to just using a single monitor/laptop.

by ge96 9y ago

Love dual monitor, display on the right code on left and i3-wm, but would like to get used to just using a single monitor/laptop.

CorvusCrypto 9y ago

I use both. When I am in the office I have almost the same setup you describe. Code on the right on a vertical monitor and the program itself on the left. However when I am on my laptop at home it's not that bad, it's just a bit more work to tab back and forth between the terminal, editor, and program a bit more. This argument about which is better is really silly imo. It's not like tabbing or switching focus is the main waste of time. I'd be willing to bet a lot of people arguing for either side spend more time browsing HN or Reddit than managing their workflow :V (speculation obvs)

ge96 9y ago
Interesting the right/left preference. Not sure if that's related to right/left handed or side preference I don't know. Like you read a book from left to right (sorry probably an arbitrary thought). I too thought about the vertical oriented monitor is it good? You see more lines. I like the minmap for VSCode if you happen to use that. To see a code pattern/structure at a glance.
- lfowles 9y ago
  I had dual monitors at the office and at home. For me it really depended on where my chair was. I have a slight bias toward the left monitor at home, so my primary activity goes there. At work, my chair was slightly biased towards the right monitor so I put primary activities there. (I also experimented with vertical monitor at work, but with the provided monitors the viewing angle was too awful. I bet it would be awesome with the right screens though.)
  - ge96 9y ago
    Haha damn chairs I have this L-shaped desk and I feel cramped on the right side. Ahh man did a data entry job, god I wanted to eat a bullet. Found a good keyboard though. A wired Microsoft 600 or something they're cheap but flat unlike those tall keys on older keyboards.
- CorvusCrypto 9y ago
  vertical monitor is a blessing and a curse at times. For just coding, it's great because I have more lines to reference at once. However when I show the directory tree for my projects my width is small and sometimes hard to deal with. Same problem with having a mini-map sadly. I actually am right handed and read left-to-right. My dominant screen is my left screen and it used to be my editor screen, but I switched my code to the right because nowadays more of my work is server monitoring, communication, and review of code. The wider screen space is nice for this.
  - ge96 9y ago
    Yeah I do wish min-map only expanded when you hovered over that area, too eager to post issues/requests though on their GitHub. What do you use for server monitoring? Do you have fail overs... I recently implemented server side encryption and was running into memory exhaustion problems, upped cores/ram. Was surprised to read it's bad or less performant when your computer starts using swap. Man $34/mo seems expensive for hosting using t2.medium under Amazon. Ahh well,. I like seeing the nginx worker/php-fpm pool appear in HTOP Edit. Only using PHP as that's currently the back end language I know how to work with and what the stack uses but could see benefits using Go or something.

tmerc 9y ago

I'm not sure how i3-wm compares to Awesome-wm, but I think they're in the same category. I think they're called tags in awesome, and I have 9 per monitor. You assign a tag to a window with hotkeys and can specify the displayed tags with hotkeys. On a single screen, my terminal is tag 3, browser is tag 1. If I need them side by side, I can show multiple tags at once. Otherwise, I switch between them with meta+1 or meta+3. Considering i3 is also tiling, it may have similar features, but I don't know. As to why this vs alt+tab; alt+tab is a cycle of what's open and needs recognition. meta+1 is my browser; meta+3 is my editor. If I have other windows open, they're not on those tags and don't matter in switching.

ge96 9y ago
Haven't heard of awesome-wm. I like that idea. Can you save it like a state you know, open some applications, I usually have to open my note taking "app" haha gedit, and then VSCode, FileZilla (I know not a CD), local Host directory and browser. That's a project for me an excuse to learn how to use Electron. Thanks for the tip I like that. I only know how to shift app tabs left haha alt+shift+j but the combining is cool alt+v and then alt+w or alt+e, I was stubborn before about using it but Ubuntu's dealt UI is so bloated. One thing I was looking into was time-tracking how long a panel was active for working on different projects (clients). But I usually max out my 8GB RAM too many chrome tabs.
- tmerc 9y ago
  I don't know too much about internals, but it has plugins like https://github.com/Elv13/tyrannical https://github.com/Elv13/tyrannical which lets you configure windows to be on certain tags automatically, but as far as I know, there's no save state. That would save me ages when I undock. It supports launching apps when it starts as well. VSCode sounds like windows, though. I know the OSX space of tiling window managers is terrible and it's been years since I've used windows, but bugn was my goto back then.