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My External Display Setup

Brady Holt on October 18, 2018

I am really happy with my multiple display arrangement and would like to share my setup. Primary My MacBook Pro is front and center. ...
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Elliot Derhay

45 degrees? Do you mean 90 degrees? If you mean 45, that would make it diagonal rather than vertical, right?

Also, that is definitely a nice setup. And I'll agree about the MacBook track pad being the best, especially since the newest ones are so large.

I've been thinking lately about how difficult it is to speed up my workflow just because of how often I have to jump between my keyboard and mouse (as nice as my mouse is, and even though using a mouse is what I'm used to).

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Brady Holt

Hah! Yes, I meant 90 degrees. I've updated it.

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Elliot Derhay

Ok cool. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something. At first I thought "Hmm... So is he tilting his head and glancing with his eyes instead of fully turning his head? Is this some new ergonomic thing?"

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Chris Jasper

I find it interesting that slack had enough of a priority to warrant even half of a screen. I typically leave slack closed to minimize distraction and check it every hour or two. Same with Outlook. I've had the same job since slack came out so I'm curious if most other people are expected to be immediately available on slack and reply right away?

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Erebos Manannán

I regularly have conversations about the things I'm working on with people on Slack - it's minimized otherwise, but then when I need to e.g. talk on a Slack about specific technologies or with coworkers when troubleshooting or something it gets much more priority.

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Abel Varga • Edited

I have similar setup, but slack on the laptop, and IDE on main display, as I see more code and I do not have to look down on the macbook display.

The vertical is dedicated to a Chrome with devtools on bottom.

I swipe slide screens between slack and emails and the browser playing music :)

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aly quey

Awesome ( ˙꒳​˙ ) Position and number of monitors are same same. :) I try today.

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Frederico Schmitt Kremer

Do you use any tool for keyboard / mouse sharing?

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Gene

He obviously don't as what he mentioned in the article.

But perhaps time to time, yes.

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Lasha Kakhidze

Awesome, I will replace git GUI with slack and resize browser to fullscreen (Y)

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Brady Holt

Interesting idea - I might have to try that out!

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Andy Zhao (he/him)

Ooh, excellent use of a vertical monitor. I have one at home that I haven't quite figured out how to setup. Thanks for sharing!