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athelind ([personal profile] athelind) wrote2009-06-17 12:49 pm

The Computer Is Your Friend: Dual Monitor Denouement

You know, I've very quickly adapted to using a single monitor -- thanks in part to the quick-and-easy Desktop Switcher that Ubuntu has.

The whole system seems to be working much more smoothly than it has in a very long time.

After almost a full day of this, I've started to realize that all of my most blood-pressure-raising computer issues in the last few years have centered around my stubborn insistence at keeping the two-monitor set-up running.

Hell, if I recall correctly, that was what kept me from keeping that video card I got last year in the machine: it ran fine until I tried a second monitor.

Hmmmm...


[identity profile] dutchmouse.livejournal.com 2009-06-18 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
My team leader at work uses two monitors. I'll never know how he does it.

[identity profile] ebony14.livejournal.com 2009-06-18 01:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Everyone in my office has or wants two monitors. Moreover, they want two of these. Which are a bitch to set up, a bitch to configure, and a bitch in practice because all of these bankers then complain that the text is too small or too blurry (optimum resolution is 1680 by 1050, which is tiny text; if they make the resolution smaller it becomes illegible).