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3 19" LCD 1 15"
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Typically i put VS on the center, i'll have some kind of documentation on the right, and SQL Server Managment Studio (or whatever i need.. maybe a bunch of command prompts) on the left. The far left is almost always my music or a video of some kind 
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What about useful (free) multiple monitor software?
At home I use Utramon. The best I've seen so far.
http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/
At work I use MultiMonitor taskBar because it is free and we do not have licences for Ultramon.
Very basic, but better than nothing
http://www.mediachance.com
Any more recommendations?
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I sat in front of four 17" flat panels for 3 years. That was the best combination for me.
Programming is an art form that fights back.
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Ok, so I prefer midsized multiple screens and my configuration goes as follows:
One Laptop (ASUS G1S with 15.4" 1440x900)
One LCD 19" connected to the laptop standing on the left side.
I have multiple usage for it, like stated on prev posts I work on the main monitor and have email and browser on the second but I frequently also have SQL Man Studio on the second and VS on the main or the other way around.
Having multiple desktops leads to confusion on the taskbar ir you have many open windows.
It's way easier to have a taskbar on each monitor and each taskbar having only the windows on that monitor.
For this I use UltraMonitor... very nice app and already supports Vista.
Besides this functionality it also provides 2 extra buttons on the top right of the windows that let you send a window to another monitor with a single click... very nice.
But this is just not enough for me 
I need multiple clean environments to work on different things.
I usually have several instances of VS open with different projects so I separate them on different virtual desktops.
I use the cool CubeDesktop tool to do this. With this I get 6 virtual desktops, each with 2 monitors
Once you have this configuration running you're the king of your desktop 
Links:
http://realtimesoft.com/ultramon/[^]
http://www.cubedesktop.com/[^]
Cheers!
Alex
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In my case I'm starting to look at the Matrox quad display solution... I must change the two displays I bought some time ago because I don't get why but they become blurry from time to time... (Philips if you want to know it).
But it depends on the kind of job you make.
In my case I usually program VC++ and at the same time robot applications and/or PLC and CNC apps.
So having one display for the help system and/or Internet, another one for one or two editors, another one for two editors more and one for the output of the programs or the tests is great.
So I'm more for the multi display option... (I've owned two displays for a long time, at least for 6 years when the Matrox g200 appeared and I'm completely convinced that it has helped me a lot to work faster...).
My two euro cents.
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If I were still on Windows I would have voted multiple 19" monitors. But now that I am on Mac I voted one 30" monitor.
Reason being that on Windows I tended to maximise every app window which would then take up the whole screen. Multiple monitors is best in that scenario.
On Mac the "maximise" button is intentionally odd. Most Mac desktops will have more 2/3 or 1/3 windows overlapping each other. So a big 30" with a high-res will cater better for this scenario.
(Another reason for the one monitor vote is the cabling. Three monitors is six cables at least, often more as you link up USB hubs and so on.)
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote: At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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Paul Watson wrote: Reason being that on Windows I tended to maximise every app window which would then take up the whole screen. Multiple monitors is best in that scenario.
I think I'm like the only person in the world that doesn't do this on Windows. I can't stand having every app maximized, and yet everyone thinks I'm crazy. 
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hehe, you've had Mac OS experience though AFAIR.
It took me awhile to get out of the maximize habit on Mac OS X. I used to curse Mac OS X but now I feel they got it right.
regards,
Paul Watson
Ireland & South Africa
Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote: At least he achieved immortality for a few years.
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Paul Watson wrote: hehe, you've had Mac OS experience though AFAIR.
Yeah, I suppose once its in your blood, you're branded for life.
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lol yea Ive only just turned 18 but I managed to buy myself a shiny new imac. Yummy I want an even bigger one now haha
"Wank for peace" - Ozzy Osbourne
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CookieMonster wrote: lol yea Ive only just turned 18 but I managed to buy myself a shiny new imac. Yummy I want an even bigger one now haha
Not bad, my first Mac was a hand-me-down PowerBook. This one in fact: Clickety[^]. So, it could be worse.
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My work laptop has a 17" widescreen display that can do 1600x1200, and that plus an external monitor (no matter the size/resolution) just won't cut it.
I therefore RDP into it from my own machine, which is running a pair of 24" 1920x1200 widescreen monitors (same size/resolution is important), and one older 19" portrait-mode LCD on either side (so they're arranged 19-24-24-19). The RDP window stretches across both 24-inchers (RDP can't occupy more than one monitor when running in fullscreen mode), so I find this perfect to run VS covering one of the monitors, and there's enough space horizontally to split the main IDE window so I can see two source files side-by-side without ever scrolling horizontally. The other monitor is used for VS's floating windows, Outlook, Explorer, IE, etc. But I wish RDP supported resolutions higher than 4096 horizontally; that way, I could stretch the window further and have it cover an additional monitor.
One of the smaller monitors is used for the host system--Messenger, a separate IE session, Explorer, etc and other tasks as need be (that need to be kept separate from my dev machine). The fourth monitor is turned off most of the time--I could probably go without it, but I already had it + the video card for it. About the only time I use it is for connecting to a virtual machine.
I've tried a 30" monitor--I never thought I'd say this until I tried it, but I find that too big to see everything without looking up and down. My 24-inchers aren't as "tall" and I don't need to do that. I suppose one could push a monitor of that size further away, but I don't have the desk space for that. Not to mention that I got my pair of 24"s for about half of what one 30" goes for. Same resolution, so I can't justify the extra money for bigger pixels.
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Often I have to use Remote Desktop (Home Office) which just supports one screen. If using different resolutions or having windows, icons on a second screen icon positions will be lost and everything looks confused when you come back to the host pc at work
(but I have installed a utility to restore desktop icon positions)
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Why don't you try realvnc[^]? it's free and it supports multiple monitors...
[I've added the link]
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Beats any other setup I've had, multi-monitor or otherwise.
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Now that I could go for!
/ravi
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nice to have 
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The main reason I prefer one big monitor is mainly so my neck won't hurt after hours of staring off sideways because the 7th monitor with Notepad being wrapped around the back of one's head.
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I have one 24" main screen in landscape mode and two 19" screens at both sides in portrait mode. My companion prefers two 24" screens, one in portrait, one in landscape mode.
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Great minds think alike, i've got the same setup.
...cmk
The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.
- John Carmack
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Hard to tell. I never had either 
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It's great! Maybe 2x24" in some years. But for now, it fits my needs perfectly.
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2 - 17" and 2 - 22".
Works great!
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It's nice to have the turf for testing. I'm running VPC with multiple images (even one Fedora). The HDCP is great for F1 ever other Sunday. Don't have to mess around with wonky capture cards.
Thomas
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I have 2 PC's and 2 x 22" wide LCD displays. I use a utility to remote control one PC. I run my developer tools on one while email, browser etc... runs on the other. Works out great.
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