Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on news.ycombinator.com

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  • displayplacer

    macOS command line utility to configure multi-display resolutions and arrangements. Essentially XRandR for macOS.

    You might want to check out https://github.com/jakehilborn/displayplacer which is really nice for changing resolutions beyond what macOS lets you do using the GUI

  • i3

    A tiling window manager for X11

    i3* does that. You specify a set of workspaces and their screens. Personally I go a step further and set programs to specific workspaces as well.

    This works really nice with a docked/undocked setup. When the additional monitors are disconnected, all workspaces move to the main(laptop) display.

    eg, I have workspaces 1,2,5,9 on monitor 1 and screens 3,4,6,7,8,10 on monitor 2. When undocked all 10 workspaces move to the laptop screen.

    * https://i3wm.org

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