My newest kick: second monitor vertically mounted.

[Pretendo]

Vertical monitor is unbelievably better for efficiently displaying a single task, especially if it's text or code oriented, but sucks for multitasking or images. Horizontal is better for displaying images or multiple tasks at once, but isn't as good for reading or dedicating a single task to...  Having one monitor handle each situation just seems logical!

Anyone else ever try this?  Opinions? Comments?  Make a joke about the phrases "mount vertically" or "mount horizontally?"

[hashbaz]

I had a vertically mounted second monitor for a long time.  I ended up reverting to horizontal because, as you say, it is inconvenient for things other than code (namely, reading web pages and long-lined terminal output at a readable font size).

[himynameisbunny]

namely, reading web pages

Your monitor must have been mighty small then.

In the process of building a rig for a mate that has two Dell U2412Ms. One in landscape and one in portrait. Having one of them in portrait is amazing, all websites display properly and you barely need to scroll to read an entire page.

As a matter of fact, I'm at work on my 19" Acer right now and it's taking a great amount of self control to not rip one of the Dells out of it's box again and set it up.

[hashbaz]

I should have said some web pages -- specifically, some internal work web pages are horizontally intensive.  Also I was forced to run the vertical monitor in less than full resolution due to an issue with dual screen support and the video cards we have at work.  My other monitor is 30" and runs at 2560 x 1600, and I was running into a problem with max supported resolution for the two combined.  The details are fuzzy, but it suffices to say that it was not ideal.  That and lengthy terminal output was hard to read at the narrower width, and having a terminal open on the second monitor to display output from the application running on the main monitor was one of my prime use cases.

[himynameisbunny]

Wow, didn't see that coming! Very interesting predicament.

I suppose you could have always used something like this?

[AKIMbO]

I love vertical monitors.  I've got 3 monitors.  The middle is in landscape and the other monitors are on either side of it in portrait mode.

[Daniel Beaver]

I've been wanting to do this for a long time, but have never had a convenient way to mount it vertically.

[Lanx]

i thought the monitor was mounted on top of your main when i read the thread, that's how i have mine and i've rarely seen anyone do it like that.

[whiskerBox]

I was gonna do this at work, but they made me give one of the monitors to an engineer
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[ironman31]

I would have bought a third monitor to mount in portrrait, but my desk is too small

[insilica]

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oh yea. I got 2 x U2410's in portrait ... working towards setting up the 3rd! such a waste to put these monitors in landscape!

[Minskleip]

I just did this as well, both at work and home. I may change it back at work though, because of superior window management which involves workspace swapping. Don't want to resize my xterms.

[cbf123]

I've got a 2407 (precursor to 2410) in landscape.  It's just about the perfect size to fill my useful central vision--any wider and I have to move my head, not just my eyes.  I've got a second LCD beside it, but with workspace swapping in X on Linux I hardly ever turn on the second display.

[EverythingIBM]

I use this as a vertical monitor:


It's a really nice thing to have around.

[Gerk]

I love vertical monitors.  I've got 3 monitors.  The middle is in landscape and the other monitors are on either side of it in portrait mode.

That's pretty much my setup exactly.  A 30" in the middle and a pair of 23" vertical on the sides.  Works wonderfully for my usage.  I recently had a second 30" above the first one, but I ended up moving it to a different machine as it was not very convenient to use for long periods of time up there, too high up to be comfortable.