On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 02:05:01PM -0800, Galen Seitz wrote: > > Someone heard Keith complaining. > <https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/12/lgs-1618-ultra-tall-monitor-means-less-scrolling/>
Interesting, thanks for that. The 2560x2880 LG screen has a display area 20.6 inches tall, and the bezels look like 0.7 inch top and bottom, so 22 inches high. Allowing 3 inches underneath for stand and keyboard and mouse, that would extend 25 inches above the desktop. The support pillar in the arstechnica photo appears to clamp to the back of the desk. For my setup (a workbench with a back shelf, 1970s Tektronix surplus) I would bolt it though a hole drilled through the back of the benchtop. I make "tall" by with two rotated, side-by-side Planar PL1910M displays, 1024x1280, using xrandr to turn the left image counterclockwise and the right clockwise. That puts the narrower "top" bezel edges (0.85 inch) together in the center. Display area 15 inches high by 2 times 12 inches wide. 107 pixels per inch. With keyboard and mouse beneath the two-head rotating stand, the top of the screen bezels are 20 inches above my desk, level with the reference bookshelf behind. As I write this, my screens display three xterms, two 111X * 33Y xterms on the left (with a gnome/mate panel on top), and the larger-font 100X * 62Y xterm I write this email in on the right screen. I could use smaller fonts, but then my emails would grow too lengthy. I use a KVM switch on one of the screens so I can switch it to a second machine. Handy for debugging machine "B" while looking at documentation and notes on machine "A". Some websites emit pages too wide for a 1024 pixel screen (google search does this to fit in more ads). For those sites, I stretch the display window between screens, and arrange the "gutter" to cut through vertical white space. Annoying, but it does give me bigger pixels to read with my aging resolution-challenged eyes. A better arrangement might be clever software: a user-aware web-browser that can massage and filter web content for me, still downloading the banner ads and useless sidebars, but directing them to /dev/null, not my screen. Extra bonus points if this engaged a background process that "clicks" and downloads ALL the extraneous ads and sidebar content to /dev/null, providing more revenue for the sites I choose to visit while exhausting the ad budget of the more pernicous advertisers. My computer should serve me, not the attention thieves. Keith P.S. I have a lifetime supply of spare Planar displays, most recently purchased used for $20 each. Some banding and a blown speaker on the oldest. -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected]
