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Jun. 27th, 2014 10:43 pmOne great thing about having a large, high-resolution monitor is being able to show two documents side by side on one screen. Unfortunately, the amount of page real estate that's visible when I do this is limited, even if I'm in "page width" mode (i.e., zooming a document so I can see the width of a page).
So after a serendipetous happenstance a few weeks ago, when an attempt to use a certain keychord resulted in the unexpected result of having the display on the monitor I was working on turn by 90 degrees, it occurred to me that one could physically turn a couple of monitors on edge, induce them to display in "portrait" orientation, amd thereby effect a stepwise improvement in my work space.
Turning monitors is easy. Getting them to stay that way is not. The hardware they come with assumes you will use them in landscape orientation. I therefore ordered a setup that lets me mount three monitors in front of me in any orientation I wish.
All of the hardware arrived late today, and I am now working with four screens (three monitors, two of which are in portrait mode and one of which is in landscape mode).
The only tradeoffs so far have been (a) the "centerline" of the monitors, which has shifted off to the side (easy enough to cope with by moving my chair to the appropriate side, I guess, but that makes me feel a little off-center... go figure) and (b) the "plane" of the monitors, which has advanced toward me by 7 inches or so (the monitors are now a hair over 30 inches from my eyeballs). Perhaps if I fix the one, the other won't bother me so much... I don't know.
Apropos of this change, I happened to run across a post at Lifehacker that spoke of a program called DisplayFusion 6.0, which appears to do a much better job of dealing with multiple monitors than does Windows.
As an example, within about the first ten minutes of use, I was able to create a function that resizes a window just enough to show me an entire 8-1/2×11 page on one of my portrait screens (as opposed to occupying the entire screen). I have no idea what may be done with the remaining part of the screen, given my function, but there are obviously a lot of features I am not even aware of yet.
Lots of work arrived today. Some was finished. The rest will have to be done this weekend.
So after a serendipetous happenstance a few weeks ago, when an attempt to use a certain keychord resulted in the unexpected result of having the display on the monitor I was working on turn by 90 degrees, it occurred to me that one could physically turn a couple of monitors on edge, induce them to display in "portrait" orientation, amd thereby effect a stepwise improvement in my work space.
Turning monitors is easy. Getting them to stay that way is not. The hardware they come with assumes you will use them in landscape orientation. I therefore ordered a setup that lets me mount three monitors in front of me in any orientation I wish.
All of the hardware arrived late today, and I am now working with four screens (three monitors, two of which are in portrait mode and one of which is in landscape mode).
The only tradeoffs so far have been (a) the "centerline" of the monitors, which has shifted off to the side (easy enough to cope with by moving my chair to the appropriate side, I guess, but that makes me feel a little off-center... go figure) and (b) the "plane" of the monitors, which has advanced toward me by 7 inches or so (the monitors are now a hair over 30 inches from my eyeballs). Perhaps if I fix the one, the other won't bother me so much... I don't know.
Apropos of this change, I happened to run across a post at Lifehacker that spoke of a program called DisplayFusion 6.0, which appears to do a much better job of dealing with multiple monitors than does Windows.
As an example, within about the first ten minutes of use, I was able to create a function that resizes a window just enough to show me an entire 8-1/2×11 page on one of my portrait screens (as opposed to occupying the entire screen). I have no idea what may be done with the remaining part of the screen, given my function, but there are obviously a lot of features I am not even aware of yet.
Lots of work arrived today. Some was finished. The rest will have to be done this weekend.
