Dual monitors vs. Dual Machines

[Jonathan Hutchins]

So you would be a "type 1", more real estate user.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Monty J. Harder" <lists at kc.rr.com>
To: "Jonathan Hutchins" <hutchins at tarcanfel.org>; <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 11:06 AM
Subject: Re: Dual monitors vs. Dual Machines

> "Jonathan Hutchins" <hutchins at tarcanfel.org> wrote:
>
> > It seems to me that two "real" uses for multihead systems are 1)
Expanded
> > desktop real-estate, as with the sound editing, and 2) running a process
> in
> > one window while controlling or monitoring that process in another, when
> you
> > need full-screen or near-full-screen window size in one or more of them.
>
>   I run dual monitors at work because of 1) - I was able to get two 17"
> monitors going at no marginal cost (all the hardware was already paid for)
> compared to having to justify to my boss why I would need a larger monitor
> that would cost hundreds of dollars.  Between LookOut and the Citrix
client
> to access our customer-information database, where I document what I've
done
> each day to justify my pay, a couple of terminal windows (for my modem to
> dial into the customer's system and fix things, and the SCO server in the
> back room so I can rtfm so that I don't break something else in the
process)
> and the various IM windows I use to ask someone how to do something I
don't
> know, or they ask me how to do something they don't know... it's a lot of
> windows, and I =hate= having to grab title bars with the mouse and move
them
> around.  I like to keep the windows in the same place so that I can just
> alt-tab between them.
>
>   The only downsides I've found to this arrangement is that I can only use
> the Citrix server that's configured to also work outside the firewall, as
> the internal servers don't seem to play nicely with the dual head setup,
and
> that VNC will only let me view my left (primary) monitor