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WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR?

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Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Beep@lemmus.org⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Meanwhile, I’ve owned 4 monitors since 1995 and I happily remain on a single 1080p monitor.

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  • Harvey656@lemmy.world ⁨28⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    The dream

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    • ShankShill@sh.itjust.works ⁨26⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      I used to think that 15 years ago. Now that’s my nightmare.

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  • Overspark@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Image I guess we need to extend this chart somewhat…

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    • DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Needs a log scale x-axis

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      • ThePyroPython@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Yeah and the wild thing is that the importance axis is cut-off, by the time it reaches 10+ screens that’s the single most important employee who if they were runover by a bus tomorrow, the company will just randomly implode one day when something only they know how to maintain just falls over and no contractor can untangle the spaghetti infrastructure.

        The thing is, they haven’t had a pay rise since screen 6 but somehow are just unphased even by inflation.

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    • multifariace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      The most important is at the bottom of that curve, right?

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      • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Image

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      • DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Well, yes, but also the lowest-paid.

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    • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah it starts ticking back up after 2 monitors

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      • Overspark@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It really doesn’t, and I day that as someone who often had 3 or 4 monitors on his desk 😂

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  • CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Shake till it gets big

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    • Beep@lemmus.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      😐 What gets big exactly?

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      • CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Debian 13 + KDE Plasma - Why does the mouse get so huge? HAAAAHAHAHAHA

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      • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨40⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        Pp

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    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Is there a way to define a home location for the cursor and have a key combination to send it there?

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      • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        xdotool mousemove 0 0

        Replace the 0 0 with your desired coordinates if you don’t want the ‘home location’ to be at the top left.

        Then use xbindkeys to bind your desired key combination to run that command.

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  • W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Image

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  • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Wtf is this ? What the hell are they doing that requires 27 screens ?

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    • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Reminds me of the workstation from “Halle Berry’s Breasts: The Movie” Swordfish.

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    • Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What aren’t they doing?

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    • Kraiden@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have a friend who works for Transpower (company in charge of NZ electric grid) and occasionally goes into their control rooms. Apparently they have set ups like this. It gets worse, because there are several computers hooked up to the different monitors, so not only do they have a wall of monitors, they have a bunch of different keyboards and mice (mouses?) that they have to hunt through if they want to actually interact with something

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      • humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        There is crossplatform software for mouse/keyboard sharing.

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      • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        They need to invest in some KVM switches. Just leave the monitors connected directly to the towers but route the input devices through the switch. There’s no good reason for a single person to face more than one keyboard and mouse at the same desk.

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      • lordziv@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Kiwi gang!

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    • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      IDK but I’ve seen pics of 911 operator setups with some absurd number of screens and I bet there’s a lot of stuff that would be useful for them to have open.

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      • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Makes sense yeah. I guess at this point it’s a monitoring station more than a computer, i.e the operator is not gonna have many interactions with it other than looking at the screens

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      • KingPapaDaddy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It’s 4. My daughter is an operator.

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    • CannedYeet@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Gooning

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    • VaalaVasaVarde@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s the boss screen, in a second they will Alt-Tab into Flight simulator.

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    • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve seen stock traders where everyone on the floor had half that many. A few of them had 9.

      When they’re looking up trades or news, they open a ridiculous number of windows while doing research.

      They have 4 screens just to watch the markets and handle in-house controls.

      What’s striking about this is the amount of whitespace on the screens. They are only using 1/2 - 1/4 of their screen space.

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    • lbfgs@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Traders love doing this

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    • Phoenix3875@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not sure about this one, but I know quant traders sometimes like many screens with many dashboards for realtime trading.

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    • DioramaOfShit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Russian space program

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  • raman_klogius@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The GPU having to render 60K pixels at 144fps: “I’m tired boss”

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    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Almost certainly multiple in that sort of setup

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  • username_1@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    xeyes is a classic X Window program that helps finding the cursor (looks like a pair of eyes looking at the direction of the cursor)

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    • Beep@lemmus.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We don’t talk about Xorg in 2026.

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      • username_1@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Pfah, I dare even dislike the syntax of Rust.

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      • notabot@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Xorg 4 lyfe!

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    • blueday@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      lol I remember installing and running this, and just thought, wow, this wasn’t worth it. 30 years later the use was made clear and I should’ve thought about it when I first went multimonitor.

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  • rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The misalignments on those monitors hurts me in a way that is almost physical…

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    • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Imagine how it looks from the person sitting in front of them. It’s perfect.

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      • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Or it was until it got bumped. And then trying to adjust it back bumps another one. And so on. Then you think you have it right, sit down, and realize shit’s not level anymore.

        And then a year later one of the panels dies, and you get handed a replacement with the same screen size but a different bezel size.

        The path to zero fucks given is slow but steady.

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  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For windows, powertools has settings to help find the cursor bt shaking it or to highlight it, etc. i fond it helpful with just 2 monitors sometimes

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    • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      KDE Plasma has that too. It’s funny, the cursor just keeps growing while you’re shaking it. Slowly, you can eventually cover the whole screen.

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  • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    www.tweaktown.com/news/48291/…/index.html

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  • comador@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ah yes, Matrox’s last bastion of business: ridiculous monitor counts across 2 or 3 Matrox C680 cards.

    It’s even more ridiculous when you use 15 x 85" OLED TVs for some company doing a C&C room.

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    • db2@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Image

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      • guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip ⁨8⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        This looks oddly similar to factorio

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      • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Meanwhile, I’m fascinated by the type of dweebus that would waste construction time and budget, not to mention taking up precious squares in their base, sandbagging the edges of a cliff.

        (I’m assuming this is a prefab computer opponent base in some damn fool mission or another, but I’ll be damned if I can remember which one after 30 years.)

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      • zephiriz@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        This looks like Factorio. Someone needs to make a mod to import these graphics and do the reverse.

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    • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lol, yes!!
      And it’s been for decades.
      I remember reading gaming (PCI/AGP) reviews of the things decades ago & just marvelling at pro (non-gaming ofc) setups.

      They are using Intel these days and still only have 8 ports :)
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  • funkajunk@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Y’all never heard of workspaces? 🤨

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    • Harvey656@lemmy.world ⁨26⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Workspaces are a sin that true^tm gamers must never use.

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  • einlander@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Monitor spec’d sunscreen

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  • dogs0n@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Neck? No more.

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  • anon_8675309@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I couldn’t. Even developing I have reduced myself to one monitor. It’s improved my focus a lot.

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  • SHBI7368@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    this is not even my final form!!!

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  • eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This looks like a Goodwork skit. 😄

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  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    3 horizontal screens is the magic cursor finding balance. If 4th, must be touch screen you avoid mouse movement to.

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  • jankforlife@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Would you like some human with your monitors?

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