Pondering going back to one monitor

I've been enjoying my new system, currently I'm using two 23in monitors, main on one screen (1920x1080) and the 4 slaves (same resolution but scaled via ISBoxer/innerspace).

Only issue I'm having really is I just find I don't ever look at the second screen. Sometimes when I need to. I will look over at times when something seems wrong and having the bigger windows makes it easier to figure out what might be going on(slave stuck, facing the wall, taking a nap, what have you). But overall I'm almost less in tune I think to the whole team than I was when everything was on one monitor.

I thought I would eventually adjust to things but seems I may just not adapt. My field of view is only so big ...

So I'm pondering getting a new 27in monitor with higher resolution (25xx by 14xx). Figure this way I can have the best of both worlds.

Anyone else had the same issue with multiple monitors? Anyone using the bigger high res monitors, be curious of folk's thoughts on this before I purchase as they are pretty spendy.

I don't look at the slaves much easier, and I feel good about that. But I am definately not ignoring them.

Likely all you need to do is have a mechanism for telling you when your slaves are erroring (facing issues for example) and put that on the main screen. This is pretty trivial if you use pitbull or stuf or grid where you can easily have a state indicator on a unit frame and code with a plug-in, then look to the addon "errormonster" those events as indicators (stuf i think is the easiest)

While your there you can do the follow status (like jamba does), how far away the toons are from the tank, and other toolings once you get hand of it (direction difference compared to other dps role slaves). You can also trigger poweraura for the slaves on your main easily at this stage.

The only thing normally have on the slaves, when they have no window focus, besides a casting bar is a huge "sexycooldow"n the size of the normal actionbars (which are removed) with a very scaled flare. That can draw your eye to the slaves.

Also power aura some "shock therapy" strobe images on the screen helps too, but that will get in the way of things and use a pot of memory.

Well, I tried something similar. I have a 21" widescreen plus a 17 4:3 older LCD. RIght now I run main on big screen and 3-4x Alts on the 17". I got a hold of a 23" screen, which I quickly found was too big for one window (I have it positioned pretty close to my viewing position due to desk layout).

I thought, what if I scaled main window down and just stacked alts down the right side using ISBoxer's handy reconfig tool. Turns out, the windows were just too small.

For normal running around, it's fine I guess. But occasionally I need to click a quest item or portal using broadcast and need to make sure that everyone is oriented correctly. I just found the screens too small.

Now, a 27" might be ok, since you have more space, but I'd try it out somehow before you commit the $$.

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Originally Posted by Boylston

But occasionally I need to click a quest item or portal using broadcast and need to make sure that everyone is oriented correctly. I just found the screens too small.

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Sure you could use your event multiplexer to click a region. I have a few regions on my main off near the minimap with a dummy "kgpanel" (like what decursive unit frames looks like), when i click that area hotkeynet clicks or right clicks the area on the slave(s). right above the player model.

I am sure isboxer does the same thing. Definately no need to use the slaves for handing in quests and taking portals, unless somehow they get in the wrong area (they go before the leader is what I try for)

If you get a water / heal stone trading addon you can do away with a lot of trade issues as well. I usually trade all the leather to one character and cloth to another and so forth. I dont recall the water macro, but it allows you to trade anything and use white lists. So if you open trade to the character it will toss all its cloth into a window essentially. Then you just need to macro that trades between the slaves. But that stuff is rare (well maybe as rare as portals).

You make a good point about addons .

I was going to ask /search about this topic.

So would pitbull have a display telling me when folks were casting, debuffs on them, distance away?

That would pretty much solve all my problems.

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Originally Posted by Tyval

So would pitbull have a display telling me when folks were casting, debuffs on them, distance away?

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Yeah any of the modular unit frames have party casting bars, incoming heals, debuffs and basic range for the party.

You can see the casting bars in this video of maxions for example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhQfrWdbm-I

If you remove (disable) a lot of the 'auras' (resting, pvp icon, master looter, voip icon, ready check, etc' and any unused unit frames you can free up some resources as well if your a bit starved. There shouldn't be any reason for pve to have your slaves running the unit frames as well. Though you might want healing comm and a few other addons in there to give feed back for such things.

I'd say just give it a try. I boxed for 1,5 year with just 1 wowwindow visible and I love it to have my slaves windows visible now. It's usefull for very basic things, like where slaves are after a fear, when a follow breaks etc.

I do have the slavewindows reduced to about 1/16 of my 22" monitor with Firefox with WOWHEAD running next to it. Especially the wowhead part is awesomely epic awesome etc. I can awnser most questions in guildchat or my own within 10 seconds. Quite helpful.