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I guess we need to extend this chart somewhat…The most important is at the bottom of that curve, right?
Yeah it starts ticking back up after 2 monitors
It really doesn’t, and I say that as someone who often had 3 or 4 monitors on his desk 😂
The GPU having to render 60K pixels at 144fps: “I’m tired boss”
Almost certainly multiple in that sort of setup
For windows, powertools has settings to help find the cursor by shaking it or to highlight it, etc. I find it helpful with just 2 monitors sometimes
KDE Plasma has that too. It’s funny, the cursor just keeps growing while you’re shaking it. Slowly, you can eventually cover the whole screen.
Wtf is this ? What the hell are they doing that requires 15 screens ?
Reminds me of the workstation from
“Halle Berry’s Breasts: The Movie”Swordfish.
I have a friend who works for Transpower (company in charge of NZ electric grid) and occasionally goes into their control rooms. Apparently they have set ups like this. It gets worse, because there are several computers hooked up to the different monitors, so not only do they have a wall of monitors, they have a bunch of different keyboards and mice (mouses?) that they have to hunt through if they want to actually interact with something
They need to invest in some KVM switches. Just leave the monitors connected directly to the towers but route the input devices through the switch. There’s no good reason for a single person to face more than one keyboard and mouse at the same desk.
Kiwi gang!
There’s
dozensat least three of us!I want to join, but they don’t let me
What aren’t they doing?
Gooning
IDK but I’ve seen pics of 911 operator setups with some absurd number of screens and I bet there’s a lot of stuff that would be useful for them to have open.
Makes sense yeah. I guess at this point it’s a monitoring station more than a computer, i.e the operator is not gonna have many interactions with it other than looking at the screens
My parents were 911 dispatchers for decades. It’s how they met. They had 7 monitors last time I visited them at work 20 years ago. Their applications seemed to be built on the idea they had multiple monitors worth of space that they’d be stretched across.
If I remember accurately, there were 2 computers (and thus 2 mice and 2 keyboards). The first computer had 5 monitors and was the Google Maps equivalent for where all the active ambulances in the city were. The main application stretched across multiple monitors and had sub-windows with different operations in them. I think it also managed the radio between dispatcher and ambulance. The second computer was dedicated to the phone, the caller, any history attached to the phone number, and all the data 911 gets about your location. It took up the remaining few monitors. By now it’s probably 1 computer and even more monitors.
Separate computers may be due to necessity. For example, one of the systems they need may have a provided computer to handle it that is managed and supported by that vendor on a separated network for security.
It’s 4. My daughter is an operator.
I’ve seen stock traders where everyone on the floor had half that many. A few of them had 9.
When they’re looking up trades or news, they open a ridiculous number of windows while doing research.
They have 4 screens just to watch the markets and handle in-house controls.
What’s striking about this is the amount of whitespace on the screens. They are only using 1/2 - 1/4 of their screen space.
Traders love doing this
It’s the boss screen, in a second they will Alt-Tab into Flight simulator.
Not sure about this one, but I know quant traders sometimes like many screens with many dashboards for realtime trading.
Russian space program
Shake till it gets big
😐 What gets big exactly?
It’s a feature in KDE that if you shake or move the mouse fast the cursor gets bigger so you can find it.
Debian 13 + KDE Plasma - Why does the mouse get so huge? HAAAAHAHAHAHA
HOLY SHIT THAT’S WHY IT DOES THAT?!?!?! I learn something new about Linux on this platform every day.
My favorite part is that it keeps getting bigger as you continue shaking it, eventually resulting in a big-ass cursor that can’t be contained in one display lol
…What? I was bored…
macOS also has this feature under the name “Shake mouse pointer to locate”.
Yeah I think it been a Mac feature since like 2018, but more newly adopted in KDE. But either way it’s just a help UX idea, and potential aligns with someone’s behavior of just like moving the mouse fast to verify it’s still working
Apple added it in 2015.
It was on Linux longer. The focus follows the mouse was another that I would like to see native
It was on Linux longer.
I’m fairly sure that didn’t become a thing in KDE until 2024 or 25
Windows, since 7 (2009ish), had a feature to hit CTRL which zeros in on the mouse to find it if you can’t find it. On my 3x 19" LCDs I had, it was handy to have that 3" circle close in on it.
Enable it under mouse settings, not automatic.
It’s so well implemented, I sent it to a bunch of my friends saying something like “good accessibility and good design often are the same thing”
Accessibility causes developers to implement users a choice on design.
The original intent of css was we’d influence pages with out own design but that never happened.
Night mode is accessibility lifted to a feature.
Still doesn’t help in finding where your cursor is currently.
Even worse when running multiple VMs.
Half a dozen blinking cursors, but only one of them is actually active…
There is a function on linux that makes the cursor expand in size when you wiggle furiously for a few seconds
“Wiggle furiosly” sounds like a great way to spend saturday night.
I’ve put a hole in 3 monitors that way. At once.
Is there a way to define a home location for the cursor and have a key combination to send it there?
xdotool mousemove 0 0Replace the
0 0with your desired coordinates if you don’t want the ‘home location’ to be at the top left.Then use xbindkeys to bind your desired key combination to run that command.
The misalignments on those monitors hurts me in a way that is almost physical…
Imagine how it looks from the person sitting in front of them. It’s perfect.
Or it was until it got bumped. And then trying to adjust it back bumps another one. And so on. Then you think you have it right, sit down, and realize shit’s not level anymore.
And then a year later one of the panels dies, and you get handed a replacement with the same screen size but a different bezel size.
The path to zero fucks given is slow but steady.
xeyes is a classic X Window program that helps finding the cursor (looks like a pair of eyes looking at the direction of the cursor)
We don’t talk about Xorg in 2026.
Pfah, I dare even dislike the syntax of Rust.
Xorg 4 lyfe!
lol I remember installing and running this, and just thought, wow, this wasn’t worth it. Now, 30 years later the use was made clear by you and I should’ve thought about it when I first went multimonitor. Thank you!!
Neck? No more.
Ah yes, Matrox’s last bastion of business: ridiculous monitor counts across 2 or 3 Matrox C680 cards.
It’s even more ridiculous when you use 15 x 85" OLED TVs for some company doing a C&C room.
Lol, yes!!
And it’s been for decades.
I remember reading gaming (PCI/AGP) reviews of their cards (with their GPUs) decades ago & just marvelling at pro (non-gaming ofc) setups.They are using Intel these days and still only have 8 ports :)
This looks like Factorio. Someone needs to make a mod to import these graphics and do the reverse.
Meanwhile, I’m fascinated by the type of dweebus that would waste construction time and budget, not to mention taking up precious squares in their base, sandbagging the edges of a cliff.
(I’m assuming this is a prefab computer opponent base in some damn fool mission or another, but I’ll be damned if I can remember which one after 30 years.)
👋 It’s me, I’m the dweebus. I decided I liked base-building, so I decided to max out my economy and vibe after I reduced my opponent to their last building. And then I decided I wanted to make my base pretty, so I decided to decorate with fences, sandbags, and aesthetically placed defenses.
I didn’t play C&C. I played Stardew with tanks.
Y’all never heard of workspaces? 🤨
Monitor spec’d sunscreen
I couldn’t. Even developing I have reduced myself to one monitor. It’s improved my focus a lot.
Would you like some human with your monitors?
