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Everybody has different preferences and needs, I don't think there is a golden standard, but here is my setup. 4x27" (not retina, sadly I don't have the budget for this). They are all horizontal, with 3 at the bottom and 1 at the top. A
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- C is my main monitor, I use i3, and my current focused app is always fullscreen, code editor, terminal, kicad, firefox (like right now). Nothing really new here.- B is my "put it all" monitor, on it I have multiple i3 workspaces, with IRC, Slack, riot.im, twitter, chatty, discord, toggl time tracking, spotify, music player, keepass XC and a few other utilities. All apps on monitor B have notifications muted and I cycled them (the social ones), like once every hour or two hours. I hardly every look at B except when scanning social things and changing music. When working B is just black. - D this is my secondary working monitor. Browser with dev tools, 3d preview, datasheets, documentation... all this goes there. - A this is the persistent monitor. If I'm monitoring (eg trying to find a performance bottleneck in an app), I'll have a grafana or whatever graphs on it. Or a log tail, trying to find a visual pattern in the logs (sometimes it happens). Anything that has to persist through the day or even the week. If I don't use it (like 60% of the time), I put some ambient images on it, like this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4CQHzLAi8o |