24 inches monitor and coding

[mamairaja]

Hello
I am planning to buy a 24 inch monitor to replace my old CRT. But some have told me that it's bit difficult for coding. Is that true?

[CABAListic]

Huh, why would it be? I have one, and it's quite nice. Well, my ideal setup would involve three such monitors, but I'll need to get rich before I do that

[Zonder]

I use a 24inch monitor at work since I have a laptop as my workstation., It does work well.

[betajaen]

I have a 23 inch monitor, and I just use a larger font.

[Zonder]

I still have mine on normal and 1920x1200 rez I find that is basically same pixel size as like using 1280x1024 with a 19inch. Does depend on your viewing distance i'm about 50cm away

[merlinblack]

At my previous job I used two 19" screens, which was really good, however using a 24" non-wide screen at home was really good too, especially using a non overlapping window system. (Multiple terminals, and vim with split views on Linux)

[Emmefd]

I'm only coding html / css using PSPad on an 1920x1200 pixel 24-inch LCD-monitor
and it's working fine. Maby not optimal for long text whith little spacing, but as betajaen do, you can choose lager font.

[Kojack]

I use two 22" Dell 2209WA monitors (eips panels). I've still got a third 2209WA waiting to be hooked up, when I can find a damn eyefinity compatible adapter which doesn't have an insane cost (finally found one, need to order from canada by the look of it) and actually works.

For any serious work I'd hate to be without dual screen, it's great to have something like visual studio on one monitor and firefox on the other with api docs or stuff.
Although that makes it really hard when I go to work. Most of the time I'm in a classroom using a projector, so I need to run in 1024 x 768.

[Klaim]

It's only a rez problem. I have a laptop 15.4" with 1920x1060 (or something like that) and it's far harder to read in native font size than with my 23" with the same resolution.

If your code editor support vectorial fonts (like MSVC2010 at least) then it's not a problem at all. It's even easier to work with several wide screens, all divided in half with code page, doc, scripting etc all around.

[mamairaja]

thanks for the replies,
As I see all of you are using 22, 23 and 24 monitors without any problems. So I should go for 24. even if i face any text size problem i can set larger font size.
Thank you

[Zonder]

I would really go for a dual monitor setup if you can it does make things alot eaiser development wise. Handy when playing games too game in one firefox on other

[JaJDoo]

24 is bad. you should get a prime number. like... 23. that sounds much better for coding.

[Brutal]

Im on a 24" widescreen with high res, and its hillarious looking at other peoples code. You can tell who was on small monitors/low res because there comment lines take up about 1/4th of my screen width then they go to the next line to continue the comment.

[Zonder]

Im on a 24" widescreen with high res, and its hillarious looking at other peoples code. You can tell who was on small monitors/low res because there comment lines take up about 1/4th of my screen width then they go to the next line to continue the comment.

I personally never pad to the screen width but lots do

[merlinblack]

I now have a 23" wide at my new job. Works great but I'm wishing for a "half-maximize", in other words it a maximize type button (or key) and it fills the left or right half of the screen. I'm tending to use the wide in similar fashion to two 19"s. Hmmm, I'm on Linux, so I think I could do something there....

[Kojack]

I now have a 23" wide at my new job. Works great but I'm wishing for a "half-maximize", in other words it a maximize type button (or key) and it fills the left or right half of the screen. I'm tending to use the wide in similar fashion to two 19"s. Hmmm, I'm on Linux, so I think I could do something there....

If you were on windows 7, it's Win-Left and Win-Right to maximise to the left or right half of a monitor, or Win-Up to maximise to full screen.

[Kentamanos]

I now have a 23" wide at my new job. Works great but I'm wishing for a "half-maximize", in other words it a maximize type button (or key) and it fills the left or right half of the screen. I'm tending to use the wide in similar fashion to two 19"s. Hmmm, I'm on Linux, so I think I could do something there....

If you were on windows 7, it's Win-Left and Win-Right to maximise to the left or right half of a monitor, or Win-Up to maximise to full screen.

Sweet...I knew about dragging it to the left or right edge of the screen, but that doesn't work so well when you have dual monitors (if they're side by side can only drag to left edge of screen 1 or right of 2). The keyboard shortcut works great with dual monitors. Thanks Kojack!

[RoadWarrior]

I bought the Hanns-G 28" monitor back when it was $500. Now it is $299. I am a big fan of 1920x1200. At this price, why not?

My second monitor is a 22" 1680x1050. I would replace it but I only need one big monitor. The other is to run the game in debug mode. It is big enough for now.

[Kojack]

Also forgot to mention that the Win-Left/Right arrow combinations will cycle through monitors half a screen at a time if you keep pressing them, and Win->Down is minimise.

[Kentamanos]

Also forgot to mention that the Win-Left/Right arrow combinations will cycle through monitors half a screen at a time if you keep pressing them, and Win->Down is minimise.

Yes the left/right is super sweet on dual monitors.

I tried Win -> Up and it's maximize btw.

[mamairaja]

Very recently I have bought a acer 24 inch one.
Picture quality is great.

But having one problem when do coding. Most of the IDEs default background color is white. this is sometimes pain because of the brightness. Monitor it self has an adjustment button for text , movie, graphics etc.... Even I change this to text still it's a pain. I feel that it's too bright. Eye problem?

So what is the brightness and contrast value you are most comfortable with when coding(text read)?

[betajaen]

I've used the "monokai" colour scheme for IDE and text editors for years. It has a very dark brown-ish background, and seperate bright colours for all of the enums. The only thing I do change is the whitespace colour (which is cyan) to the same colour as the comments; a light brown which blends into the background; as I tend to leave the whitespace on in Visual Studio.

And someone has even ported it to Visual Studio!

http://github.com/mmonteleone/monokai-vs


I find the fonts Inconsolata or Monaco work best in Visual Studio, as long as you increase the font size to 12-14pt.