[ale] Hopefully last LCD question

[cfowler at outpostsentinel.com]

I'm looking at a viewsonic that has a 1440x900 max res.  Hows does X handle 
that?  Do I have to manually enter that in xorg.conf or will 
system-config-display on FC4 automatically do it?

On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 09:24:16AM -0500, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> Chris, that's a really good question.  When I got back into programming 
> in 2004, I was doing it on a widescreen laptop and I had the same 
> concern as you.  I think Thomas' point carries the day in the end, at 
> least in my opinion.  One could contend that you don't need to be 
> writing code such that you're actually dealing with more than 15" of it 
> at a time anyway (modularize, modularize, modularize!!).
> 
> I'm using a big tube monitor (20" or 21") at work, which is good, but 
> I'm having to look above the horizontal for the top quarter of the screen.
> 
> But really, think of what Thomas said - what *else* do you have up when 
> you code?  I typically have two or three shell windows up on the left 
> and a kate window full of Python on the right.  It's very common to have 
> a Web browser or what have you for reference or requirements docs.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
> 
> Thomas Stromberg wrote:
> 
> >On 27 jan 2006, at 08.09, cfowler at outpostsentinel.com wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>With a widescreen I could put more windows out but the number of
> >>lines I would view in vim would be reduced since the vertical
> >>resolution of a ws is lower than a normal LCD.
> >>
> >>What I'm asking is are widescreens made more for gaming and
> >>multimedia instead of doing work like coding, monitoring, email, etc.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Personally, I prefer widescreen LCD's for doing code development.  
> >This allows me to have two windows side-by-side: The editor of the  
> >day (Eclipse), and either documentation or a terminal window to  
> >interact with the application I am developing. I find this ability to  
> >have two items side by side more beneficial than having more lines  
> >going down my screen.
> >
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