Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

Re:Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers by stevbov on Thursday December 02, 2021 @02:22PM (#29421127)

I had this problem when I first got a 30" monitor - I was constantly losing my mouse cursor, it took forever to move over to things, etc. To solve it I wrote a program for storing and restoring mouse cursor positions (along with focusing the app under it) and it really helped.

It was nice being able to have multiple windows visible at once when I was doing things, and to be able to switch between them quickly. Mobility was basically not a problem since the mouse instantly moved to the location I expected it to.

Nowadays I mostly use the keyboard and just use standard hotkeys to switch the app, mostly because I've been too lazy to see if my program still works.

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Re:Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers by drewzero1 on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @10:43AM (#29486092)

I also lost the mouse cursor fairly often. I turned up the size and acceleration and got into the habit of throwing it into the top left corner which either opened the applications overlay (in GNOME shell) or fanned out all the windows (in Mac OS).

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