1y ago

Monitor Alignment Alignment Chart

I'm at true neutral.

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Chaotic good here. They have different DPI too so you're never quite sure where your mouse is going to end up.
- OK, calm down Satan....
- You can use a software called LittleBigMouse to make this better. It's really nice in my experience with 2 1080p screens and one 4k. All roughly the same size
- I spend hours aligning their bottoms and virtual position so now my three screens transfer the mouse exactly in their vertical middle.
  I also use a tiling WM with tons of workspaces and if I switch workspaces my mouse gets reseted into the middle of the workspace anyway.
  
  I switched to Wayland and it makes a huge difference. Pulling a window over to my higher dpi monitor makes it go ... clearer. It looks just like how you'd want it to look.
  I like it so much I refuse to accept my status as chaotic good and want an exception for chaotic good wayland users with correct dpi compensation to be categorized as chaotic neutrals and lawfuls
- Chaotic good (3 displays) here
  My old monitor is not going to waste :)
- So, uh, I have no idea if my chaotic good monitors have different dpi. I guess I'm just used to it lol

where does diagonal fall?
- This is horrendous. I love it
- I feel like all in the chaotic column should have at least one diagonal monitor.
- Hell, probably.

What about this?
- Imagine having to manually adjust your tint setting. NTSC, man. Literally shaking in my SMH.
  This message brought to you by PAL gang and team SECAM.
  
  The SCART squad of the PAL posse.
- Does it have Ray Tracing?
  
  Yeah, and a shadow mask.

I present you with my masterpiece
- https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/neck-pain/symptoms-causes/syc-20375581
- Looking at your picture makes my neck hurt.
- It doesn't bother you looking up or are you a giraffe ?🦒
  
  It's a standing desk?
  
  I don’t put much stuff up at the top that has small detail or need to look at alot
- Needs more RGB.
  
  Wait till you find out how pixels work
- TvTooHigh! I think we even have a community here for it already!

Chaotic evil here. No regrets.
- Stock exchange broker's home setup.
- So jealous of the foot heater.
- This would 100% be my setup if I could use more than two monitors. I am incapable of having just one project at at time open, and this would just work so well for me.

Am I the only chaotic neutral here? I code on the right and do everything else on the left.
- I'm chaotic neutral but with a third monitor on the left.
  
  Is the third monitor horizontal or vertical?
- Nope. I'm a new convert and I love it. Laptop monitor to the left of the big landscape for random screens. It's fantastic
- Fellow chaotic neutral here, basically same here. code on vertical screen + some articles for easier reading and everything else on the main screen
- Represent.
- I'm sort of that. I've got two landscape and one portrait monitor, the portrait one is good for browsing websites like this one where there's a lot of vertical text. I actually find myself preferring the landscape ones for coding since my IDE has a lot of stuff in sidebars and also some of the lines of text are very long.
- I am technically, but I almost never turn on my second (vertical) monitor. Usually when I have my main set to a different source and I want something from my desktop PC on the other monitor.
- Oh, that's Brilliant. I'm going to try this out
- Another chaotic neutral here. I need my vertical display.
- I'm a mix between chaotic neutral and lawful neutral. I have a vertical monitor on my left which is mainly for slack + documents. Center screen for code and what ever I'm focused on and laptop screen on the right for calendar, email, other not in focus things.
- I'm chaotic neutral too but I don't code on the diagonal monitor. I only have it diagonal because my neck hurts looking at the side screen if I have them both horizontal lol
- Don't take the chart seriously. Pretty much all of these setups are good for their uses and are done by someobdy, even certain forms of "chaotic evil".
- There are dozens of us!

"Chaotic Good"
aka "I got this monitor for free from someone else"
- I feel attacked, the pc came with a 4:3 monitor for you information... the bigger one was a the gift
  
  Tbf, I say that as someone that lived the Chaotic Good monitor life for like, a decade with a monitor my family was throwing away.
- For me it was more I upgraded my main monitor so my old main monitor is now a side monitor.
- I bought both of mine. For next to nothing from a charity shop. Also they're TVs.

what about having a tv across the room as a second monitor?
- If you only use the TV to watch media, you're lawful neutral. If you use it for gaming or anything else, you're chaotic good.
  
  It's still going to be better than screen on budget laptops. I am convinced my laptop's screen is 30Hz and it surely wasn't manufactured to produce colors.
  
  Hah, I'm just gaming on a laptop but one that's connected to my TV

Ummmm... how about 2 vertical monitors above each other?
That's how I got this long ass screenshot, for example:

I don't know how else to do that, so I fixed it with hardware ʘ‿ʘ
But otherwise, true neutral.
- Ultrawide flipped vertical?
- You can tell xrandr anything, it doesn't have to be physically connected. So you could get 3960x1080 virtual screen space for a single vertical HD screen. If you move your mouse to the edge of the screen it will scroll what is visible. I discovered it in my triple monitor setup. I turn off screens I don't need (they waste like 30W!), but the script I wrote to notify X11 of these changes doesn't work as reliably as I would like, lol. Also duplicate polybar sometimes, haha.
  Not sure how useful this is, because while the application thinks it has all this screen space available you can't actually see all of it at once.

Hard disagree. More monitors is morally better.
Vertical monitors are good for code, too.

One monitor isn't true neutral. It's broke-ass removed. That's me. I'm a broke-ass removed.
- If you don't care about them matching, thrift stores can have some really good deals.
  
  Even at thrift stores it's usually not too hard to find a pair with matching size and resolution which are the two big considerations. Getting screens with identical pixel sizes makes all the difference.
  
  I buy all my monitors on Craigslist because I am broke as hell and people unload 1080p monitors with chunky bezels cheaply

Tilted 22 degree to maximize the potential line length that can be displayed.
https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20211203-ideal-monitor-rotation-for-programmers/
- You tell the IT guy your webcam keeps falling off, and he's gonna show up and commit violence. Only probably against you.
  
  First I have to tell him to configure the windows work laptop that way (for external screens)

How about only a laptop monitor?
- Yeah, it's missing: [Laptop] [Monitor 1] [Monitor 2]
  or the Chaotic version: [Monitor 1] [Laptop] [Monitor 2]
  
  That don't you look down at my corner office desk setup! It's balance. 32" 1440p, 14" 1080p, 32" 1440p. Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
  
  My work setup is [Monitor 1] [Laptop] [Vertical monitor 2]
- And what about using a 65" 4K TV to replace four 32" 1080p monitors? Where do I fall on this chart?

It's not how I would want to be all the time, but Chaotic Neutral is really great for reviewing documents in a PDF.
- I run chaotic neutral plus a laptop to the side. The vertical monitor is home to chat and Spotify.
- That's my setup except I have a 3rd monitor in portrait orientation on the other side too.
- Yah, i will also choose this if i want to have 2 monitor.

Lawful Good
. Flight Simulator in 3x 32” 4k
- Glad to see another hanging PC!
  It was the only way I could get my monitors connected to my standing desk. Now I only need to figure out if subjecting hard drives to motor vibrations is risky, or if they can handle a bit of shaking when switching between sitting and standing.
  
  Yeah man! I have a wifi receiver/repeater, UPS, audio mic amplifier, and the PC mounted under. I move every 6 months and this lets me simplify having a workspace. I like being able to wheel the desk around.

What about using Android Tab or Phones as second monitor?
- I understand a tablet, but using a phone for the second monitor?
  
  Enough for System stats, or a music player (especially if you can use it for input too, without it tabbing out of games)
  
  I guess it would work for notes f.ex. Or something like colour palettes

So Chaotic Evil just gets way more screen real estate than everybody else?
- With great screen estate comes great window management…
  
  No, with tiling window managers comes great window management!

Love my lawful evil setup, works great!

At home: Chaotic good but with three monitors that are all different sizes
At work: Two monitors side by side, and then one above them
Not a programmer though, I make videos
- for future reference, it's even more convenient to use when you know to change GUI scale settings to configure them to align with the physical space

I'm Chaotic Neutral (although my vertical monitor is on the left). It was an experiment that stuck because I like being able to read more lines of code at once.

What am I?
- Dunno, but I would like to know more about your lamp
  
  Unfortunately I got it at a thrift shop and there are no stickers. Googling for "pulley lamp" shows me one that looks very similar: "Carbon Loft Tirith Industrial Farmhouse Table Lamp with Pulley System"
- Someone with bad posture
  
  Why?
- Psychotic
- Sick lamp! A removed to dust off I bet, but I like the style.

I'm pretty much chaotic evil, with a laptop.
One thing I will say: anyone who has a single window spanned across multiple monitors needs battering. "Oh, yah, I fookin' love 'aving un two-centimeter black bar in middul of me Word doccumant". Unhinged sociopaths, all of them.

Lawful neutral at home and Chaotic neutral at work

50% of web developers: Chaotic Neutral
Salespeople: Lawful Neutral
Programmers (and the other 50% of web developers): Unaligned, we know how to use shortcuts.

What about those who eschew multi monitor setups in favour of an ultrawide?
- basically neutral good without bezels
- And what about the ones who just use a 50” TV

Guess I'm chaotic evil

Chaotic good, one 32" 2560×1440 display, one old 19" 1280×1024 display (mainly used for referencing docs, for a debugger, or watching a VTuber or a conference presentation).

I know it's been out for years but I don't understand anything about this meme format. Reminds me of mbti bullshit
- It’s a DnD thing.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment(Dungeons%26Dragons)
  
  Thanks! Makes sense now
- It's an alignment chart, most commonly used for D&D (and other TTRPG) characters.

I’ve got a sideways monitor, a rightway monitor and a laptop all scrunched together, what does that make me?
- You are not invited to D&D.
  Go watch some Stranger Things

Why is it neutral evil to have a monitor without a face?
- You don't have a soul trapped inside your desktop wallpaper?

I think they're all evil with those skulls on the screen.

Lawful good at home.
Laptop and two horizontal monitors at work. Is that lawful neutral good or neutral good lawful?
Personally, I think it's probably neutral awful - one is HDMI and the other is VGA.
- I've got my laptop, main 32" inch monitor, and a 27" vertical monitor on the other side. So am I a lawful chaotic neutral? Chaotic lawful neutral? Truly true neutral? Also, one is connected through HDMI and the other is connected through DVI.

Chaotic neutral should be a solo laptop screen.

I'm lawful neutral monitorally but ideologically chaotic neutral. This and that then.
- I have the chaotic neutral setup and the open notebook as a third monitor. Does that resolve to true neutral too?

The "tie fighter" setup of vertical, horizontal, vertical, gives me nausea
- Like this? :p

I use a 42" 4K monitor. Same working area as 4 x 21" 1920x1080 screens but more flexible. Been doing so for ~10 years. When my old 39" 4K monitor broke I used 2 x 24 inch monitors + laptop screen for a while but I ended up buying another big monitor instead, it's just so convenient.
- 4k is clutch, I have this, tiled windows, and universal zoom enabled so I can zoom on one thing and the 4k means it's perfectly legible, the zoom out for the full view

You forgot just laptop and my other screens are just pretty pictures. Covid really changed how I work hahaha

Chaotic good. I refuse to get rid of the little one. My electronics only leave me when they're fubar.

I'm a reverse Lawful Neutral; laptop on the left, monitor on the right.
Before that I had a 16:9 monitor on the left and a 4:3 monitor on the right. That doesn't seem to be in the chart anywhere.
Seriously, someone needs to start making high-quality 4:3 monitors again. Sure, they're not great for movies and modern video games, but they're great for reading.

I am chaotic good at home with a 4K and a laptop screen
But at work it’s all 1080 monitors (unfortunately) so I have 3 and I a mix of chaotic neutral and lawful evil 😂 2 portraits then a landscape

I guess I'm LE. Its the only way my monitors would fit in my space :(
- I actually prefer the stacked setup, myself, regardless of space.

Chaotic evil baby. I need somewhere to read long documents, manga, man pages and configs.
- Vertical is so nice for text and so bad for video.
  And for games... apparently Zandronum renders 4:3 regardless of resolution. So one time I played Knee Deep In The Dead looking like Marathon.

waiting for the "they're all evil" because using windows
- Might want to zoom in a little bit there.
  
  yes it's the linus one I'm aware

Lawful neutral, though my laptop is up on a stand to bring it to the height of the monitor, so maybe chaotic good?

Chaotic good looking to become chaotic gooder with a third misshapen monitor.

My setup isn't featured, but it's basically neutral good with the laptop below it in the middle.
- This is the way.

Chaotic good but I REALLY vibe with that chaotic evil

Lawful Evil at work Neutral Good at home Shockingly accurate about more than just the monitors!

I have four screens from four different manufacturers, with three different sizes, three different resolutions, two different aspect ratios and two different refresh rates.
Two of these are resurrected from the dead of which one has a high voltage cold cathode driver externally plastered to it's back (because the internal failed and there was no space inside) and the other one shining from every pore because I "replaced" one cold cathode tube by plastering the "replacement" tube somewhere in the housing of the monitor to fool the driver into thinking all tubes are fine (one was defect, the driver doesn't work without every tube connected and putting the replacement in the place where it should belong is too much work).
I am basically the evil necromancer of chaotic evil.
27 inch, 1440p, 16:9, 144Hz, Asus
24 inch, 1080p, 16:9, 60Hz (driver sticking out), BenQ
21 inch, 1080p, 16:9, 60Hz, Iiyama
21 inch, 1680x1050p, 16:10, 60Hz, Eizo
I can provide pictures later today if someone's interested.
Edit: Here are the pictures
- Definitely Interested
  
  I hope an Imgur link is fine. If not please tell me which (multi) image hoster is fine here on lemmy. Here are a few pictures I took of my setup and the necromanced parts
- Oooh yes I too have 3 different monitors of different makes and sizes!

Neutral good for personal. Lawful good for work.

I’m pretty sure I’m Chaotic Evil with 2x 1920x1200, 2x 1024x1200, a 1920x1080 and one 1366x768 but I don’t run any vertical anymore, so maybe not?

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