Maybe it's an IDE thing. I like a skinny column of code next to something else -- either another skinny column of code (maximized gvim, one vertical split) or F

Maybe it's an IDE thing. I like a skinny column of code next to something else -- either another skinny column of code (maximized gvim, one vertical split) or Firefox with some documentation/reference in it. Firefox and most IDEs seem to want the whole screen, especially on a 1280-px-wide or smaller display. I can strip the stylesheets off of gratuitously spread-out web pages with Greasemonkey, but most IDEs seem to require enough screen real estate for, um, stuff, that a window with 80 columns of text still takes up more than half the screen.