I don't subscribe to your morality. I have my second monitor on the floor under the desk.I often unplug it and plug in a projector that's pointing at the wall to my left for YouTube while I work. Haha!
I used to be chaotic good for some time before I decided I needed the desk space more.
The vertical feature in windows was the best thing Microsoft ever did. My ideal set up is two stacked horizontally oriented screens with a vertical screen either side. Documents, code and web pages are tall, simulation diagrams and PowerPoints, etc, are wide. Fight me.
Yeah, I have:
27" 1440p in the middle
24" 1080p to the right
21" 1080p on the upper left
22" 1050p 16:10 on the lower left
All from different manufacturers, two of them bought broken and resurrected. I call it the "chaotic evil necromancer setup".
None of them in portrait though.
It's a bit problematic to run websites on a vertical 1080p display, since it seems that most websites default to around 1200 or 1280 wide, so you end up having to horizontally scroll. It's problematic.
IDK why it's so difficult to find 1920x1200 displays so I can put a new vertical display on my system.... It's literally the only reason I don't have a vertical display on my system right now.
Nah, if you decode the lawful scale and the good scale to a number and go with 1 0 -1 for each then you reversed a -1/0 and that's obviously a 1/0. So you're lawful neutral!
Typically NG, rarely CN. I actually only have two monitors because one died and I needed a new one in short order. The one that died was repaired free under warranty so now I have two.
not sure where my setup stands, i got my ipad in portrait, in the centre of the desk on a stand, with two 14 inch laptops on either side, one phone on the left side of the left laptop, another phone either wedged between the two laptops, or inconveniently chucked in the middle of the giant mousepad.
I have mine set up like lawful good, but the middle one is work, and the side two are personal, and when I'm not working, I move the side two to completely block the middle one. What's my alignment?
The other is an old one that runs twitch / Spotify/ youtube while I work on a separate pair of headphones so the work productivity monitoring software doesn't pick it up.
I'm hybrid so I have to take the work computer into the office once a week and on work travel trips
My daily driver also has to be portable so I can play games next to my wife on the sofa sometimes, or I also use it for video, voice over and music editing so being able to move it also helps.
Also I sometimes use the twitch/spotify/youtube laptop to show sheet music while I record on my daily driver without worrying about fan noise.
Mine is like this but upside down (2 is a laptop) and with a large gap between the top two. Sort of Mickey mouse head style, but all the same size. I primarily use 2 and 3.
Probably chaotic evil for these as well, since they didn’t even make the chart.
Neutral Good here but I would do this if I had my monitors on arms so I could raise them above my open laptop screen; I don’t like having a gap or having the screens blocked by the laptop.
I have to know what you’re doing with this if it’s not, like, watching security footage. I can see a number of uses but all of them(that I can think of) are productivity based and are the kind of thing where you never really spend long periods of time on any one screen.
2 is my laptop opened all the way and sitting in a vertical stand, so the screen is above and a little behind the other monitors, and the laptop camera is top center. I put Teams up there, so I can notice if I’m being messaged.
1 and 3 are on a dual arm stand. They are where I do my actual work. All kinds of stuff.
I see a lot of folks using that setup where the upper monitor is playing video, like Netflix or YouTube as background entertainment while doing other stuff on the bottom two, mostly coding/work type stuff.
I have my comp in a small nook in the side of my bedroom that's supposed to be where a dresser lives. Couldn't fit two monitors side by side easily so I put two ultrawides, one on top of the other. Works out really nice tbh.
Back when native resolution was 4:3 it made more sense to have them side by side, but 16:9 it just makes more sense to have them vertically stacked.
Also, my setup is a 50" 4k TV for the top screen and a 43" 1080p for the bottom, I'd have to look sooo faaar over to see the other screen that I honestly don't have the wall space in my room for it. I am generally reclined on a couch while using it, my head resting is centered on the upper screen with either a reference of whatever I'm working on the lower, though usually it will be a twitch stream I'm tangentially interested in but only need to take a look at it on occasion if I head something interesting happening.
Chaotic neutral is, unironically, the best for a lot of work related tasks. It takes up less space on a desk and the vertical monitor just makes a lot of sense for reading Teams/Slack/whatever, answer emails, reading documents, etc.. I actually picked it up from a friend who uses a vertical curved monitor and he said it was great for coding related work. Don’t skimp on the resolution, though, ‘cause you’ll probably want 1440p to make sure the words are clear. 4k is fine but probably overkill and needlessly expensive.
When I worked from home I had my personal 34” curved screen in the middle of my desk for AutoCAD and a vertical monitor from work fit perfectly between the main monitor and the edge of the desk. T’was brilliant. And I’m tall so my main screen is high enough up that my laptop fits underneath and I can watch shows and stuff
I used to have a chaotic evil setup. I was writing code for some AIO PCs used as kiosks on the shop floor, so I needed to test the code on one of the devices. At the height of things, as we were transitioning to a new system, I had two of the kiosks (running different OSs), my laptop screen, and two external monitors, all of them running software that let my mouse and keyboard treat them as one computer.
I'm in 'chaotic good' territory, with the smaller secondary monitor on the left, and games fucking refuse to launch on the larger monitor despite it being set as the primary. Even doing the Win+Shift+Arrow trick to force it over to the right, it will pop back to the left as soon as I Alt+Tab away, or sometimes even during the transition from the main menu to loading the actual game.
Tried switching the ports around to change which monitor is #1 vs #2; I've even upgraded to a new GPU... nope, shit always launches on the tiny monitor.
Ready to throw them both away and just buy two matching monitors, but y'know... money...
What window manager do you use? Many have an option to overrule what the window wants to do and force it to do what the WM wants it to do. This might solve your problem.