Globe and Mail Column on Multiple Monitors


August 10th, 2009

Harvey Schachter of the Globe and Mail interviewed me for a column on multiple monitors. The article appeared in today’s edition of the paper, and it’s available online as well.

I believe he does give the topic a reasonable treatment, for his target audience. Let me know what you think!

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2 Responses to “Globe and Mail Column on Multiple Monitors”

  1. Jason Says:
    August 10th, 2009 at 8:27 pm

    Good advice. I’ve also settled on 3 (each 24″ in landscape mode). My workstation is built for 4, but that may become a TV output to an LCD TV mounted somewhere nearby, but not a “work” display.

    I do wish window management would make some advancements here. For instance, I like my current task to be on the centre monitor. At some point this might be code, but if I see some email come in on my left screen it would be really handy if I could just swap the contents of the 2 screens. The XMonad window manager does have the ability to do this if you can deal with a tiled window manager. I wonder, do Windows and Mac have this ability?

  2. Ryan Thompson Says:
    August 10th, 2009 at 10:39 pm

    Windows does not have this ability out of the box (not even Windows 7, as far as I know). I am somewhat fond of a shareware program called DisplayFusion that does greatly improve multi-monitor setups–middle clicking on a window title (even if maximized) will move it to the other (or next) monitor, retaining the maximized setting, for example. At some point, I’ll do another post on that.

    For the Mac, I’m pretty sure there is not built in functionality for this, and to be honest I haven’t really looked around for 3rd party tweaks.