 Welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rossell here. I've been working from home for a number of years now At least a part of the week and two things I really can't live without are firstly my wonderful desktop computer I do have a laptop and I'm a big fan of desktops and the second one is a multi-monitor workstation I personally use three screens. Some people are really happy with two other times You'll if you ever see those those news clips where they where there is a financial crisis and they zoom in on the Trading floor of a bank. You'll see guys was crazy crazy Nine screen arrays. So there's really the only limit to how many screens you can set up It's how many your graphics card can't support but one advantage that you get when you use a Multi-screen environment as if you have your screens up on something called visa mounts now visa VESA stands for I'm gonna have to look this one up unfortunately on my side screen here video electronic standards Association and visa mounts. It's basically just a industry standard hole pattern If you ever look at the back if you have a flat screen LED monitor, you might see four holes and if you haven't used a Mount before and by the way mounts are not expensive if you're looking for a double mount You can get them in sort of side-by-side. You can get them to vertical. So like one here. You can find them all on Amazon for 20 to 50 dollars. They only get expensive if you're going for fancy articulating ones So once you have your monitors up on a mount One advantage that a lot of folks don't think to take advantage of is a fact that you can now Swivel them because the visa your monitors on a visa mount and the visa in most of the most of the monitor stands You can buy are actually Rotatable So that's a big advantage. You can have one of your monitors in vertical mode sometimes called document mode And it's just basically rotating your monitor. So instead of being a widescreen monitor at a 16 by 9 It's 9 by 16 aspect ratio in other words. It looks like this now If you want to do that then as well as physically turning your monitor on its mount You're going to want to configure that screen in your operating system. Whatever you're using to tell the OS Hey, this monitor on the left isn't in it's not in the default normal position of landscape It's in portrait mode or document mode. So please arrange the pixels in that way So most folks are using windows and I'm sure there's windows videos about how to do this I use Linux as I mentioned a number of times here So I'm going to show you guys if you're also using Linux a very simple program you can use to make that magic happen So let's jump over to it here. Now. This this is a GUI a graphical program. That's called a render And you can see I have my three screens set up here With their HDMI outputs now, let's say I wanted to use my left screen HDMI one as a document view monitor So what you do is right-click on HDMI and then for orientation You want to go for now depends which way you're going to do it if I rotate left you can see it's going to be with the information spread like that or if I go right, it's going to be so you can just look at what way the text is arranged in whatever way Makes sense to you. So that's going to be where the bottom of the monitor is or the task bar So what I'm going to do without actually moving my screen is you can then save this as a desk As a screen layout. So when you go layout save as an a render It's automatically going to jump you into the screen layout folder, which is located in your username in the System in the system. So my one is Daniel and you can see under dot screen layout I have Default dot sh and I actually have so it's just a simple batch script I actually have this as a auto start program. So as soon as my I'm using LXDE as my desktop environment As soon as I get into my desktop environment It's going to automatically and then literally in a couple milliseconds run This program and we'll take a look at in a second. It just literally tells the operating system what way to arrange monitors So that's default and what I'm going to do now is create left document view dot sh and save it and So this is what I recommend doing now. It's a bit of a you could assign these two keybindings. Well, what I basically do is just I'm just going to jump here into my Screen layout folder and I'm going to copy the newly created batch script and put that on my desktop Alongside my default script. So what you can do is with two clicks You can change into now. I presume if you're going to be using this you're not going to be Using it that often, right? So you can either if you want to create a folder on your desktop called Monitor, you know layouts and this is just again. I've just copied these two batch scripts out of the Default folder and I've just plopped them here. What you can do is just double click after you change your screen You'll get back in you'll get into the left document view Folder and then just click on default again If you want to rotate your screen back and go back to working with your monitor Conventionally and I just to show you guys what these are. They're very simply batch scripts reading with a couple of lines Calling out the X render command. So you can see this is my default monitor layout And you can actually sort of parse these yourself So the usual way to start a batch script to be an SH X render minus minus output So that's saying the DVI outputs off then it's calling HDMI one output. It's saying the mode is going to be 1980 by 1080. That's a resolution Position is zero by zero and rotate the rotate variable here sets the rotation Now if you look at the second output output DPI off to output HDMI to this is the second screen in my array here It's also a 1080p monitor. So we're going to go for the same mode. And now the position is 3840 pixels. So I actually stand corrected 3840 is 920 by 2 so it's actually HDMI 3 that is my middle screen and that has the offset of 1920 so we're starting from the left here and we're saying this is a zero zero offset then we need a 1920 offset on the X axis X axis zero on the Y axis and for the right screen We're going to be using an offset of 3840 pixels, which is 1920 by 2 From our starting point across the X axis so that that screen is put in the right position and the rotation is going to be normal So that is pretty much all there is to it If you do have a multi-monitor array set up Using visa mount in other words, you're not just using the default monitor stands that most almost all monitors come with Then one advantage you can take is being able to put one or many of your displays in vertical Document configuration and if you are in a bunch you user you can use the a render GUI Which is very simply a graphical front end for X render and all you have to do is right click and configure change the Orientation of the monitor you want to use in desktop mode Then go ahead and save that and make sure to also save your config your monitor configuration before the Rotational change and then save them somewhere that you can easily access them from From your desktop and all you need to do is a couple of clicks and one rotation whenever you want to go between a document mode and one of your monitors and Regular display on all of them I hope that video is useful if you want to get more videos for me about technology a bunch to Linux and other subjects and do Please consider subscribing to this YouTube channel and thank you for watching