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Old June 3rd 06, 07:04 PM posted to alt.comp.periphs.videocards.matrox
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Default More Productive? Two 21" or One 24"

On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 03:43:24 -0700, Al Franz wrote:
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Have never used a two monitor setup but I can see the advantage of having
two separate applications at full screen has an advantage over having to
resize windows to fit in a larger 24" workspace. Is that correct? Do others
agree?


It depends on what kind of work you do, of course!

IMHO, if people haven't used a window manager with support for virtual
screens (or "multiple desktops" etc; there's no standard terminology), then
they should try that first.

Briefly, you can have software make it appear as if you have many screens,
and a keyboard shortcut to switch between them in milliseconds. That's
enough for many kinds of work.

One such software for Windows is "qvirtualdesktop". It's available for free.

(If you already know about such software, you can ignore this message. It's
just that I've seen organizations purchase double TFT monitors, when the
software solution would have been perfectly adequate ...)

/Jorgen

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