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Awesome desktop layout for programming

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Graeme Geldenhuys

Hi,

I've read a article on 'Coding Horror' and thought I would try it out for a day. Rotate your desktop (and screen) by 90 degrees. That gives me 900x1440 resolution on my LCD display.

This is pretty awesome for reading FPC documentation, websites or viewing source code! I now have almost 90 lines of code I can see all at once. Plus our projects have rather a lot of units, so having an enlarged Project Inspector windows is pretty great too. :-D

Here is a screenshot of what I see:

http://opensoft.homeip.net/~graemeg/vertical_desktop.png

Alternatively, you can go the other way. 3 LCD monitors in a horizontal position. But I still like the extra vertical space I have, which a horizontal layout will not provide.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/09/lcd-monitor-arms.html

Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/
Doug Chamberlin
to Graeme Geldenhuys
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote
This is pretty awesome for reading FPC documentation, websites or viewing source code! I now have almost 90 lines of code I can see all at once. Plus our projects have rather a lot of units, so having an enlarged Project Inspector windows is pretty great too. :-D

+1

I have a primary 1920x1200 in landscape orientation and a secondary 1200X1600 portrait monitor on the same machine. That way I get to slide each window to where it works best.