Two screens!
Friday, June 19th, 2009 11:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
afunaI finally remembered to dig out the power supply cable, so now I have my brother's old 15-inch LCD monitor on and connected to my laptop.
I'm trying to use the laptop as my primary point of interaction, and moving things that I rarely switch over to, or that I want to keep on in the background on the secondary monitor.
IRC is now over there to my left *points*. So is the PDF/ebook I occasionally flip to when I want to read something briefly in between tasks.
TV shows may go there as well, though I'm still thinking about that. On balance, the screens *feel* about the same size? It could be because my brother's old LCD only supports up to 1024x728, whereas my laptop can do a higher resolution. It may also be that my laptop is only 13 inches (13.3?) but is wider, whereas my brother's old LCD... no, my new LCD monitor is just 15 inches.
I wonder if this will make me more productive? Seems worth a shot. I should try coding something...
And should I move some of the coding stuff to the left, so that I don't need to alt tab between coding windows? So much to figure out. So exciting!
ETA:
One thing that's helping me transition, and is helping me switch between applications, no matter which monitor I'm currently in, are the global hotkeys I set up using Quicksilver.
f12 for IRC
cmd+f12 for Terminal
shift+f12 for Firefox
alt+f12 for Twitter
I've mostly been using the first two, but I'm now finding much greater need for / much greater value for the last two as well :)
I'm trying to use the laptop as my primary point of interaction, and moving things that I rarely switch over to, or that I want to keep on in the background on the secondary monitor.
IRC is now over there to my left *points*. So is the PDF/ebook I occasionally flip to when I want to read something briefly in between tasks.
TV shows may go there as well, though I'm still thinking about that. On balance, the screens *feel* about the same size? It could be because my brother's old LCD only supports up to 1024x728, whereas my laptop can do a higher resolution. It may also be that my laptop is only 13 inches (13.3?) but is wider, whereas my brother's old LCD... no, my new LCD monitor is just 15 inches.
I wonder if this will make me more productive? Seems worth a shot. I should try coding something...
And should I move some of the coding stuff to the left, so that I don't need to alt tab between coding windows? So much to figure out. So exciting!
ETA:
One thing that's helping me transition, and is helping me switch between applications, no matter which monitor I'm currently in, are the global hotkeys I set up using Quicksilver.
f12 for IRC
cmd+f12 for Terminal
shift+f12 for Firefox
alt+f12 for Twitter
I've mostly been using the first two, but I'm now finding much greater need for / much greater value for the last two as well :)
