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Re:Ask HN: What are some available force multipliers that mo... by dkersten on Sunday August 09, 2020 @09:36AM (#24099550)
I never understood why people struggle with window management, but then again, my primary setup is to use a tiling window manager where I either keep a single full screen window in a workspace or a very simple side by side split, or 1x2 split or 2x2 split as appropriate. Possibly one hovering window that I call up/hide on demand. And then I just keyboard shortcut between workspaces. For multi monitor, I dedicate some workspaces to each monitor (and occasionally move windows between then if needed, but it’s not so often). It’s easy to switch between workspaces because I dedicate them to specific tasks, eg 0 is messaging applications, 6 is my IDE, 7 is browser I use for development (dev tools open tiled beside the browser), 8 is terminals etc

More monitors just mean some workspaces are switched between by moving my head instead of switching what’s on screen. For some tasks it’s easier for others it’s not.

I do find a larger higher resolution monitor more useful than having two or three small ones, especially for my IDE where I have splits and such. I use a 34” 1440p currently but would love to go larger/higher resolution (but 4K at those sizes is out of my budget right now)

Re:Ask HN: What are some available force multipliers that mo... by zimpenfish on Sunday August 09, 2020 @12:01PM (#24100476)
> I either keep a single full screen window

Pretty much what I do with my single screen. Probably down to being a contractor for a long time and never knowing from one day to the next if I even had a desk to sit at, never mind a monitor or two.

Re:Ask HN: What are some available force multipliers that mo... by jon-wood on Sunday August 09, 2020 @09:51AM (#24099640)
Since moving to Mac OS because of work I desperately miss XMonad, where workspaces and screens are separate concepts, and you can ask any screen to show any workspace and it’ll just resize appropriately.
Re:Ask HN: What are some available force multipliers that mo... by stjohnswarts on Sunday August 09, 2020 @01:15PM (#24101082)
There are tiling managers for OSX. None of them work as well as the ones for Linux but they're better than fumbling with a bunch of mousing around. Maybe try Divvy or Tiles.
Re:Ask HN: What are some available force multipliers that mo... by wogong on Sunday August 09, 2020 @10:03AM (#24099699)
Tiling window manager like i3 in multiple monitors environment is not that convenient as I thought. Most of the time I just use one monitor. Switching workspace between multiple monitors confuses me.
Re:Ask HN: What are some available force multipliers that mo... by dkersten on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @11:15AM (#24121169)
I still like having multiple monitors even with i3, but a single large monitor is definitely more useful to me than multiple small ones, so given the choice I would choose a larger primary monitor before choosing a second or third monitor.