Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers (2021)

Re:Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers (2021) by nbenitezl on Friday December 29, 2023 @09:55AM (#38805589)

I also have similar single monitor (a BENQ EW3270U) set to 200% scale. I use Linux, and my productivity is good by binding F1 to F5 keys to switch to different virtual desktops.

F1 -> Terminals. (Wezterm showing 4 terminals in a 2x2 grid)

F2 -> Code editor or IDE. Sublime Text in my case.

F3 -> Internet Browser. Firefox with Container extension.

F4 -> File Manager or any other misc apps.

F5 -> unused

I'm so used to these keybindings, that when I'm on foreign computers I involuntarily find myself pressing F1 or F3 when I want to enter some command or browse some web page.

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Re:Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers (2021) by walteweiss on Friday December 29, 2023 @03:38PM (#38809924)

I do that as well, and I’m on a MacBook Pro. So when I’m on MacBook Pro that has macOS, well, that’s funny, as it takes some time to remember what macOS is and how I had been using it before.

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