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Which do you prefer? A triple monitor setup? Or one single 32:9 ultrawide monitor? (self.pcmasterrace)

submitted 6 months ago by Alpha71 to c/pcmasterrace

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I have a triple monitor setup right now, but am thinking of trying a single ultrawide monitor. What is your preference?

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[–] Nibodhika 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've been a multi monitor guy for a LONG time, mostly because I use a WM that benefits from it. But I recently moved and the company offered me a pick of monitors under a certain budget, so I decided to pick an ultra wide (34" 21:9) and a regular one (32" 16:9, I wanted smaller because I plan on using it vertically, but ended up preferring having two monitors with the same refresh rate), and sincerely, just the 34 is more than enough, since it arrived first I had to make due with it for a week so I built up some scripts to make it be seen as two monitors by the OS so I could use it as if it were two side by side and that was working great, and when I wanted to game just run my other script and it's one monitor again so it's the best of both worlds.

Given the chance in the future I would definitely go for a single 32:9, since I could even make it be 3 (or more) monitors with specific areas designed for slack and others for code, etc. That being said I'm not sure the same is possible on Windows.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Could you share the method you used to divide a single monitor from the OS perspective?

If you got the script or wiki page somewhere..

I'm curious

[–] Nibodhika 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Sure, it's quite simple:

xrandr --setmonitor LEFT 1720/1x1440/1+0+0 DP-0
xrandr --setmonitor RIGHT 1720/1x1440/1+1720+0 none
i3-msg reload

Essentially the first like tells it to only use a 1720x1440 starting at 0,0 area from the DP-0 screen. The second line creates a virtual monitor also with 1720x1440 but starting on 1720,0. The third line just reloads my WM so that it shows the bar at the top nicely.

Edit: obviously this only works if you're running X11, but I'm sure that Wayland has something similar