Please tell us what is your preferred monitor setup for programming(not gaming) and why you have chosen it. Does your monitor have eye protection technology? What is the refresh rate, resolution, size, etc? Please put photos if you can :slight_smile:

For eye care, I think high DPI and not being too close might be best. Perhaps the ideal would be a set up where you can vary the distance - so your eyes are not always focused in on one length but this would require an adaptive res as the scaling would need to increase when further away to prevent s…

You have monitors that have eye care technology, like Benq and Asus. It seems to be achieved around low blue light and sensors to adapt bright to the light in the room. Still exploring what exists.

Ah… macOS has True Tone as well as Night Shift modes (though True Tone only works on the LG5K when your laptop is open so the sensor can take a reading). What I personally do is use a D50 colour profile on the LG5K as my MacBook is always in clamshell mode (closed). D50 is traditionally used for pr…

BenQ as a page only dedicated to explain their eye care technology: [image] BenQ Eye-care Technology | BenQ Europe BenQ Eye-care solution provides four technologies to save your eyes from eye-related illnesses and offer a clear and comfy view at the same time. A…

I’ve got the same setup. When I got hired at my current company, they asked me if I needed an external monitor for my company issued laptop (MacBook Pro 13"). I believe I answered “no”, as I already had a setup with two monitors. 2 weeks later I got an LG UltraFine 5K 27" delivered. Oh well, I don’…

Nope. Just the two monitors. I can’t concentrate on more than that :stuck_out_tongue: I barely use the screen on the laptop for anything but Slack.

I’m a little bit late into the discussion, I was busy with recording, but at least I will answer your question. I started with “normal” font sizes (for the average user) and 2 monitors, but as I started to build more stuff related to spreadsheets, charts, etc - 2 monitors were a little bit like con…

Thanks for the info Kamil! What size monitors are they? Sounds like you might like the Spaces feature on macOS :nerd_face: does Linux have anything like it? I have it set up to my top left ‘hot corner’, so that when the mouse pointer goes into the top left corner of the screen it sh…

2 bottom ones are https://www.benq.com/en-us/monitor/stylish/gl2580h.html 2 top ones are my old BenQ monitors BenQ BL2400 (I bought them used 5 years ago - they need to be at least 10 years old - they look like 24") Spaces looks like multi desktop feature which comes with a lot of Linux Window Man…

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AstonJ 15 July 2020 13:45 10

Haha nice! Are you running it at the default res and with any other monitors?

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