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by Terry_Roll 1666 days ago
If using windows, Ultramon works very well,

It also works well within virtual pc's and licensing is per machine so you can use it on multiple virtual pc's at the same time as the main host, so you can multiple virtual pc's running, subject to hw abilities, and it works instantly and seemlessly, also high customisable and you can do your own commands to work with things like nVidia's mosaic.

https://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/

If you have the professional line of nVidia graphics cards aka Quadro, nVidia do a command line tool for configuring a multi monitoring system upto 16 4K monitors, so you can do things like tv walls or special effects in a theme park, or just fancy desktop setups for city traders or coders. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/design-visualization/solutions/... https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/drivers/mosaic-utility/

I cant remember if it also does tilting like that described in this post or not, but you can certainly do a lot with mosaic run it all from shortcuts so you can instantly switch to different resolutions and layouts and the shortcuts can be used in Ultramon, for seamless operations, ie switch between 2 physical monitors and 3 monitors, all called from within ultramon. Ultramon then detects the physical monitor changes and acts accordingly.

If you are looking for a nice 3 monitor setup, I can recommended this, the Ergotron HX triple box with the HX desk mounted floating arm. https://www.ergotron.com/en-gb/products/product-details/98-0... https://www.ergotron.com/en-gb/products/product-details/45-4...

You can spend hours in front of one these, get perfectly comfortable without taking up your desk space as it clamps to the back of your desk, and when you have to do paperwork, you can push the monitors to the back of the desk.

However this gaming chair manufacturer has caught my eye, like this one, https://allimperatorworks.com/scorpion-gaming-chair-setup/

but if they ever added some batteries and motors so it can drive around, I'd get one of these for my mobile solution as it can still do 3 monitors. :-) https://allimperatorworks.com/product/iw-j20-pro/