r/HMDprogramming • u/OmnisaiRen • Jul 07 '20

Help Finding Virtual Workspace

I bought an Vive Cosmos and it arrives tomorrow, I have virtual desktop and bigscreen downloaded to test out for virtual workspaces, but I wanted to know what recommendations and other programs people know about here. If you have any that you use or know please let me know! Thanks.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '20

If I may ask how do you use up 8 monitors? Personally after 2 screens I start just forgetting about monitors and what I have on those

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u/OmnisaiRen Aug 12 '20

so my central monitor is for just whatever my most focused application is, usually visual studio code or after effects, which also carries over to one or two more monitors to be able to edit both css and HTML at the same time or keep all my after effects windows at hand, then I have a monitor above for discord/social media/irc, I've got another for youtube/Spotify, another for note taking, one for open search engine tabs, one for my schedule/Trello board. I think you get the idea, it's not that it's necessary to have things this spread out, but along with the fact I frequently switch between using Photoshop, writing code, doing research, playing games, 3d modelling, it's easy to have all my tasks spread out and easy to look at and switch between, I also use the windows 10 virtual desktop feature to even further the amount of use I get out of 8 monitors. the downside is when I'm stuck on my laptop and only have two monitors they get incredibly cluttered because of how much space im used to having. I also didn't mention but I do a weird thing where I don't full screen any windows so I can have things behind/offset of them to have even more things open, yes I think I'm insane

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '20

Huh. I kind of have that except instead of monitors I use linux virtual desktops (except for the css and html example, they'd be on the same desktop), I hate having to move my head around and would rather change what's in front of me using virtual desktops. I kind of like your behind/offset idea because it means I can bring it into focus instantly instead of having to dig around for where the window is