[clue-tech] two monitors - the new fad

[Jef Barnhart]

What is you your hardware config and what does xconf look like? I have tried to
get three up and running, I will admit that I didn't try hard, with out much
luck.

Jef


On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 17:18:57 -0400
"Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at blazenet.net> wrote:

> On Thursday 01 June 2006 05:00 pm, Jeff Cann wrote:
> > But, trying to be open-minded, I put the questions to the cluebies:
> >
> > Who's using two monitors?
> > Why?
> > Are you more/less efficient with your work?
> 
> I actually have three monitors on my desk (it got so cluttered that I had to 
> put the actual computers on a "second level" that I built :-).  The one in 
> the middle,  which I'm doing this on,  connects to my workstation and spends 
> most of the time in KDE,  though I do have top running on tty8 and a log 
> being tail'd to tty7 and an SSH session in textmode running on tty1 and mc on 
> tty2 just in case I need it for something.  The other monitor to my left is 
> connected to the "server" where at the moment there are three consoles with 
> mc running and I'm shelled out on one of them and watching a massive upload 
> going on (only 823 more files to go!) and I use that monitor for most of my 
> textmode stuff.
> 
> The third one was connected to the BBS machine,  and hasn't been turned on 
> since I took the BBS down last October or so.  I should probably remove it 
> and give myself a bit more room,  but since I literally don't have any place 
> to put it at the present time I'm leaving it there for now.  And I need to 
> pull some stuff off that machine anyway.
> 
> Got one keyboard sitting on top of the desk,  the other one in a drawer,  both
> 
> those nice clickety IBM model Ms,  too.  Wish I had some more of those...
> 
> That help any?
> 
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