Monitor Alignment Alignment Chart

Chaotic good here. They have different DPI too so you're never quite sure where your mouse is going to end up.

OK, calm down Satan....
You can use a software called LittleBigMouse to make this better. It's really nice in my experience with 2 1080p screens and one 4k. All roughly the same size
I spend hours aligning their bottoms and virtual position so now my three screens transfer the mouse exactly in their vertical middle.
I also use a tiling WM with tons of workspaces and if I switch workspaces my mouse gets reseted into the middle of the workspace anyway.
- I switched to Wayland and it makes a huge difference. Pulling a window over to my higher dpi monitor makes it go ... clearer. It looks just like how you'd want it to look.
  I like it so much I refuse to accept my status as chaotic good and want an exception for chaotic good wayland users with correct dpi compensation to be categorized as chaotic neutrals and lawfuls
Chaotic good (3 displays) here
My old monitor is not going to waste :)
So, uh, I have no idea if my chaotic good monitors have different dpi. I guess I'm just used to it lol

where does diagonal fall?

This is horrendous. I love it
I feel like all in the chaotic column should have at least one diagonal monitor.
Hell, probably.

What about this?

Imagine having to manually adjust your tint setting. NTSC, man. Literally shaking in my SMH.
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Righteous Enlightend
- More like righteous, irradiated.
Does it have Ray Tracing?
- Yeah, and a shadow mask.

I present you with my masterpiece

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/neck-pain/symptoms-causes/syc-20375581
Looking at your picture makes my neck hurt.
It doesn't bother you looking up or are you a giraffe ?🦒
- It's a standing desk?
- I don’t put much stuff up at the top that has small detail or need to look at alot
Needs more RGB.
- Wait till you find out how pixels work
TvTooHigh! I think we even have a community here for it already!

Chaotic evil here. No regrets.

Stock exchange broker's home setup.
So jealous of the foot heater.
This would 100% be my setup if I could use more than two monitors. I am incapable of having just one project at at time open, and this would just work so well for me.

Am I the only chaotic neutral here? I code on the right and do everything else on the left.

I'm chaotic neutral but with a third monitor on the left.
- Is the third monitor horizontal or vertical?
Nope. I'm a new convert and I love it. Laptop monitor to the left of the big landscape for random screens. It's fantastic
Fellow chaotic neutral here, basically same here. code on vertical screen + some articles for easier reading and everything else on the main screen
I'm sort of that. I've got two landscape and one portrait monitor, the portrait one is good for browsing websites like this one where there's a lot of vertical text. I actually find myself preferring the landscape ones for coding since my IDE has a lot of stuff in sidebars and also some of the lines of text are very long.
I am technically, but I almost never turn on my second (vertical) monitor. Usually when I have my main set to a different source and I want something from my desktop PC on the other monitor.
I'm a mix between chaotic neutral and lawful neutral. I have a vertical monitor on my left which is mainly for slack + documents. Center screen for code and what ever I'm focused on and laptop screen on the right for calendar, email, other not in focus things.
Oh, that's Brilliant. I'm going to try this out
I'm chaotic neutral too but I don't code on the diagonal monitor. I only have it diagonal because my neck hurts looking at the side screen if I have them both horizontal lol
Another chaotic neutral here. I need my vertical display.
Don't take the chart seriously. Pretty much all of these setups are good for their uses and are done by someobdy, even certain forms of "chaotic evil".
There are dozens of us!

"Chaotic Good"

aka "I got this monitor for free from someone else"

I feel attacked, the pc came with a 4:3 monitor for you information... the bigger one was a the gift
- Tbf, I say that as someone that lived the Chaotic Good monitor life for like, a decade with a monitor my family was throwing away.
For me it was more I upgraded my main monitor so my old main monitor is now a side monitor.
I bought both of mine. For next to nothing from a charity shop. Also they're TVs.

what about having a tv across the room as a second monitor?

If you only use the TV to watch media, you're lawful neutral. If you use it for gaming or anything else, you're chaotic good.
- It's still going to be better than screen on budget laptops. I am convinced my laptop's screen is 30Hz and it surely wasn't manufactured to produce colors.
- Hah, I'm just gaming on a laptop but one that's connected to my TV

Ummmm... how about 2 vertical monitors above each other?

That's how I got this long ass screenshot, for example:

I don't know how else to do that, so I fixed it with hardware ʘ‿ʘ

But otherwise, true neutral.

Ultrawide flipped vertical?
You can tell xrandr anything, it doesn't have to be physically connected. So you could get 3960x1080 virtual screen space for a single vertical HD screen. If you move your mouse to the edge of the screen it will scroll what is visible. I discovered it in my triple monitor setup. I turn off screens I don't need (they waste like 30W!), but the script I wrote to notify X11 of these changes doesn't work as reliably as I would like, lol. Also duplicate polybar sometimes, haha.
Not sure how useful this is, because while the application thinks it has all this screen space available you can't actually see all of it at once.

Hard disagree. More monitors is morally better.

Vertical monitors are good for code, too.

One monitor isn't true neutral. It's broke-ass bitch. That's me. I'm a broke-ass bitch.

If you don't care about them matching, thrift stores can have some really good deals.
- Even at thrift stores it's usually not too hard to find a pair with matching size and resolution which are the two big considerations. Getting screens with identical pixel sizes makes all the difference.
- I buy all my monitors on Craigslist because I am broke as hell and people unload 1080p monitors with chunky bezels cheaply

Tilted 22 degree to maximize the potential line length that can be displayed.

https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20211203-ideal-monitor-rotation-for-programmers/

You tell the IT guy your webcam keeps falling off, and he's gonna show up and commit violence. Only probably against you.
- First I have to tell him to configure the windows work laptop that way (for external screens)

How about only a laptop monitor?

Yeah, it's missing: [Laptop] [Monitor 1] [Monitor 2]
or the Chaotic version: [Monitor 1] [Laptop] [Monitor 2]
- That don't you look down at my corner office desk setup! It's balance. 32" 1440p, 14" 1080p, 32" 1440p. Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
- My work setup is [Monitor 1] [Laptop] [Vertical monitor 2]
And what about using a 65" 4K TV to replace four 32" 1080p monitors? Where do I fall on this chart?

It's not how I would want to be all the time, but Chaotic Neutral is really great for reviewing documents in a PDF.

I run chaotic neutral plus a laptop to the side. The vertical monitor is home to chat and Spotify.
That's my setup except I have a 3rd monitor in portrait orientation on the other side too.
Yah, i will also choose this if i want to have 2 monitor.

What about using Android Tab or Phones as second monitor?

I understand a tablet, but using a phone for the second monitor?
- Enough for System stats, or a music player (especially if you can use it for input too, without it tabbing out of games)
- I guess it would work for notes f.ex. Or something like colour palettes

Lawful Good

. Flight Simulator in 3x 32” 4k

Glad to see another hanging PC!
It was the only way I could get my monitors connected to my standing desk. Now I only need to figure out if subjecting hard drives to motor vibrations is risky, or if they can handle a bit of shaking when switching between sitting and standing.
- Yeah man! I have a wifi receiver/repeater, UPS, audio mic amplifier, and the PC mounted under. I move every 6 months and this lets me simplify having a workspace. I like being able to wheel the desk around.

So Chaotic Evil just gets way more screen real estate than everybody else?

With great screen estate comes great window management…
- No, with tiling window managers comes great window management!

I'm Chaotic Neutral (although my vertical monitor is on the left). It was an experiment that stuck because I like being able to read more lines of code at once.

What am I?

Dunno, but I would like to know more about your lamp
- Unfortunately I got it at a thrift shop and there are no stickers. Googling for "pulley lamp" shows me one that looks very similar: "Carbon Loft Tirith Industrial Farmhouse Table Lamp with Pulley System"
Someone with bad posture
- Why?
Psychotic
Sick lamp! A bitch to dust off I bet, but I like the style.

Love my lawful evil setup, works great!

At home: Chaotic good but with three monitors that are all different sizes

At work: Two monitors side by side, and then one above them

Not a programmer though, I make videos

for future reference, it's even more convenient to use when you know to change GUI scale settings to configure them to align with the physical space

I'm pretty much chaotic evil, with a laptop.

One thing I will say: anyone who has a single window spanned across multiple monitors needs battering. "Oh, yah, I fookin' love 'aving un two-centimeter black bar in middul of me Word doccumant". Unhinged sociopaths, all of them.

50% of web developers: Chaotic Neutral
Salespeople: Lawful Neutral
Programmers (and the other 50% of web developers): Unaligned, we know how to use shortcuts.

Guess I'm chaotic evil

Lawful neutral at home and Chaotic neutral at work

What about those who eschew multi monitor setups in favour of an ultrawide?

basically neutral good without bezels
And what about the ones who just use a 50” TV

I know it's been out for years but I don't understand anything about this meme format. Reminds me of mbti bullshit

It’s a DnD thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment(Dungeons%26Dragons)
- Thanks! Makes sense now
It's an alignment chart, most commonly used for D&D (and other TTRPG) characters.

I think they're all evil with those skulls on the screen.

I’ve got a sideways monitor, a rightway monitor and a laptop all scrunched together, what does that make me?

You are not invited to D&D.
Go watch some Stranger Things

Chaotic good, one 32" 2560×1440 display, one old 19" 1280×1024 display (mainly used for referencing docs, for a debugger, or watching a VTuber or a conference presentation).

Why is it neutral evil to have a monitor without a face?

You don't have a soul trapped inside your desktop wallpaper?

Lawful good at home.

Laptop and two horizontal monitors at work. Is that lawful neutral good or neutral good lawful?

Personally, I think it's probably neutral awful - one is HDMI and the other is VGA.

I've got my laptop, main 32" inch monitor, and a 27" vertical monitor on the other side. So am I a lawful chaotic neutral? Chaotic lawful neutral? Truly true neutral? Also, one is connected through HDMI and the other is connected through DVI.

You forgot just laptop and my other screens are just pretty pictures. Covid really changed how I work hahaha

I'm a reverse Lawful Neutral; laptop on the left, monitor on the right.

Before that I had a 16:9 monitor on the left and a 4:3 monitor on the right. That doesn't seem to be in the chart anywhere.

Seriously, someone needs to start making high-quality 4:3 monitors again. Sure, they're not great for movies and modern video games, but they're great for reading.

I'm lawful neutral monitorally but ideologically chaotic neutral. This and that then.

I have the chaotic neutral setup and the open notebook as a third monitor. Does that resolve to true neutral too?

I am chaotic good at home with a 4K and a laptop screen

But at work it’s all 1080 monitors (unfortunately) so I have 3 and I a mix of chaotic neutral and lawful evil 😂 2 portraits then a landscape

Chaotic evil baby. I need somewhere to read long documents, manga, man pages and configs.

Vertical is so nice for text and so bad for video.
And for games... apparently Zandronum renders 4:3 regardless of resolution. So one time I played Knee Deep In The Dead looking like Marathon.

Chaotic good. I refuse to get rid of the little one. My electronics only leave me when they're fubar.

I guess I'm LE. Its the only way my monitors would fit in my space :(

I actually prefer the stacked setup, myself, regardless of space.

Chaotic neutral should be a solo laptop screen.

I use a 42" 4K monitor. Same working area as 4 x 21" 1920x1080 screens but more flexible. Been doing so for ~10 years. When my old 39" 4K monitor broke I used 2 x 24 inch monitors + laptop screen for a while but I ended up buying another big monitor instead, it's just so convenient.

4k is clutch, I have this, tiled windows, and universal zoom enabled so I can zoom on one thing and the 4k means it's perfectly legible, the zoom out for the full view

Gaming setup is true neutral Work from home setup is lawful neutral Office setup is chaotic evil

Chaotic good looking to become chaotic gooder with a third misshapen monitor.

waiting for the "they're all evil" because using windows

Might want to zoom in a little bit there.
- yes it's the linus one I'm aware

Chaotic good but I REALLY vibe with that chaotic evil

Chaotic neutrals wya?! Especially when I was using a Mac for work with ShiftIt

The "tie fighter" setup of vertical, horizontal, vertical, gives me nausea

Like this? :p

Lawful Evil at work Neutral Good at home Shockingly accurate about more than just the monitors!

Lawful Neutral + Chaotic Evil...

I have so many screens...

I’m pretty sure I’m Chaotic Evil with 2x 1920x1200, 2x 1024x1200, a 1920x1080 and one 1366x768 but I don’t run any vertical anymore, so maybe not?

My setup isn't featured, but it's basically neutral good with the laptop below it in the middle.

This is the way.

Neutral good for personal. Lawful good for work.

Lawful neutral, though my laptop is up on a stand to bring it to the height of the monitor, so maybe chaotic good?

Chaotic good but smaller monitor is on the left, only because I had one shitty monitor I got on sale right out of high school and eventually bought a much nicer but slightly smaller one later.

No one is chaotic good because they want to be. We are chaotic good because 2 good monitors is expensive.
- I have a good 27" as my main, but I don't have space for a 2nd 27" to either side -- best I can fit is a 24". So I guess I'm chaotic good by (forced) choice.
- So true lol

I have four screens from four different manufacturers, with three different sizes, three different resolutions, two different aspect ratios and two different refresh rates.
Two of these are resurrected from the dead of which one has a high voltage cold cathode driver externally plastered to it's back (because the internal failed and there was no space inside) and the other one shining from every pore because I "replaced" one cold cathode tube by plastering the "replacement" tube somewhere in the housing of the monitor to fool the driver into thinking all tubes are fine (one was defect, the driver doesn't work without every tube connected and putting the replacement in the place where it should belong is too much work).
I am basically the evil necromancer of chaotic evil.

27 inch, 1440p, 16:9, 144Hz, Asus
24 inch, 1080p, 16:9, 60Hz (driver sticking out), BenQ
21 inch, 1080p, 16:9, 60Hz, Iiyama
21 inch, 1680x1050p, 16:10, 60Hz, Eizo

I can provide pictures later today if someone's interested.
Edit: Here are the pictures

Definitely Interested
- I hope an Imgur link is fine. If not please tell me which (multi) image hoster is fine here on lemmy. Here are a few pictures I took of my setup and the necromanced parts
Oooh yes I too have 3 different monitors of different makes and sizes!

I'm a combination of neutral good and lawful neutral. 2 identical monitors + laptop.

What makes a person turn neutral-neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?

Due to a mistake I made, I'm chaotic good instead of neutral good. Current set-up is a 27" 1080p HDMI on the left, and 24" 1080p VGA on the right. Not too much in a hurry to replace my smaller monitor though, I need to upgrade my graphics card first to allow for a HDMI-HDMI configuration at least.

I suppose I'm technically true neutral since I have a vertical monitor on one side and my laptop on the other.

Chaotic neutral isn't that bad when you're doing programming since the extra vertical space is really convenient.

I've been lawful neutral ever since the pandemic forced work from home.

Lawful Neutral reporting in!

Hello fellow compatriot, I'm not a programmer but this is definitely my work set up. Now to be a lawful person but judge everybody.
- Not a programmer either but this is the only setup I can do in my studio at home. At work however it's a 4 screen setup as Chaotic Good.
  Let the judgement begin!

Chaotic neutral vibin with stream on the right and game on front

I'm on the third Z axis of this chart

two screens same size to the front, laptop on a riser to my left, at a right angle, third, smaller screen to the left of that connected to a second laptop

Your mouse driver needs A* pathfinding.

Honestly, these days I just work directly on my laptop. Get to use touchpad gestures which is nice, grilling my hands under CPU load maybe less nice.

It's usually enough to just alt+tab between my IDE and browser, so my workflow hasn't suffered much.

I guess I'm chaotic neutral. I've never had enough money to buy two of the same monitor. All of my stuff is stuff I got either for free from school or for extremely cheap.

I'd swap lawful evil and neutral evil.

I'm neutral impoverished.

Lol my set up is a 22" 1080p on the left for basic web viewing, 28" 1440p center for games, and a 32" 1080p on the right for videos/twitch while I'm playing games

I have a chaotic neutral setup for work.

Great for PDFs and word documents!

I think the closest is chaotic good although I have three monitors, two smaller ones on each side and a bigger one in the center so kinda lawful good too.

I'm at Chaotic Neutral, but my sim racing rig is Lawful Evil, so combined I guess it becomes Chaotic Evil.

And I love it.

Chaotic good. I got an older smaller 720p monitor as second. Hey if it works.

Same. And I fixed the 720p with a resistor kit a few years ago when it fritzed out. Some terminal fonts look great on those chunky pixels.

Chaotic Neutral, if you align the secondary monitor right Everything Works™

I've been neutral good, chaotic good and chaotic neutral in the past and am now lawful evil. No idea what that is supposed to mean though xD

Somewhere between chaotic neutral & chaotic evil here.

One of a pair as portrait, the other as landscape; laptop left-aligned with landscape & base-aligned with portrait for an appropriately unholy trio.

I also use workspaces and screen sessions for maximal WTFery.

Not a programmer, but I run Neutral Good + Lawful Neutral at the office, because my work issued a docking station with two symmetrical monitors, but they also issued me a laptop instead of a desktop, so what am going to do, not use the third monitor?

So, it's ugly, but it works since I either put baseball on one of the big monitors or Spotify on the laptop, and work on the other two.

Chaotic Evil is that stupid hacking computer in Swordfish.

CN for those scanned PDFs. What am I gonna do, zoom in like some kind of animal?

Lawful Good, but they're all different sizes. So.. Chaotic Good? Chaotic Evil? Who knows.

Hell yeah brother

Chaotic neutral except i have a vertical one on each side like a big H. I do a lot of document writing

Hey my old monitor setup isn't here.

Main display is normal with a laptop underneath, a vertical display to the left with a laptop display on the bottom under the first monitor

that's off to the lower-right. psychotic-evil.

So if you have a monitor hooked up to a desktop on the left, and a separate laptop running a different OS on the right, is it lawful neutral or true neutral x 2?

I'm off the chart. I have 2 mismatched monitors - a 27" and 34", and the 34 one is an ultrawide. It's wider than the other, but their bezels still line up.

What about square screens?

inb4 chaotic neckpain

I'm both chaotic good and lawful neutral, depending if it's for my job or not. I suppose that's a fair assessment of the difference between my professional character and home character.

We have neutral evil at my work and it sometimes hurts my soul.

We have neutral evil at my work
..why?
- They work at hell inc.

I find them super useful when screen sharing in a meeting because you can just share the secondary display and all your other crap (and notifications!) can stay on the main display.
I've got three monitors and a few other PCs that are all interconnected so I can mouse off one on to another.
I just turn my chair

At work I have chaotic neutral but I slot my laptop underneath the landscape screen so it fits snugly in the corner.

What if I use a 48 inch OLED TV as a monitor?

All of these are good and sometimes necessary except the bottom-right.

So, would using a monitor and a phone screen be lawful neutral too? Because that's what I usually do if I need to look up things for whatever I'm doing and don't want to boot up my desktop web browser.

Chaotic neutral

Chaotic neutral - Laptop + larger monitor

A neat trick I learned recently. The vertical /smaller/secondary monitor should go on different sides for different people. Hold a finger close to your face and close one eye and then the other. Whichever eye more closely matches the both-eye image is your dominant eye and is where your secondary monitor should go.

Lawful evil, but with ultrawide monitors.

Chaotic neutral converted to true neutral when my 2nd one broke then I realized I didn't miss it much

I guess I'm neutral evil? I call shenanigans.

I'm in between chaotic neutral and neutral evil I guess.

2 portrait displays with a landscape display in the middle. Teams on the left, Outlook on the right, main content in the middle.

Hey! Same-setup-high-five! (only without all the microsoft, but i'm not kink-shaming.)
- Awww yis. high five
  I can't help but like the way it treats me like it doesn't care. So coy.

I guess I'm lawful neutral good since I have two similarly sized screens plus the laptop screen. Just can't let screen real estate go to waste!

i have chaotic neutral right now -- would it be insane to have the middle monitor be vertical then the side be horizontal? i usually use the horizontal for videos or sports but that makes more sense off to the side, then vertical is great for scrolling

That's how I run my work setup. Ide on center monitor, documentation on the right, media and chat on the left.
I have chaotic neutral setup for quite a while. Like 15 years lol. The vertical started out as a monitor for the Photoshop palettes and this kind of stuff. Then it became the monitor for checking websites in 1024px and nowadays it's mostly terminal windows. I love to have a great scope of output in the viewport.

Lawfull good but got the laptop screen in the middle below

I have a second monitor at the upper left of my primary one

True neutral right now, but since I'm already here, does anyone know if curved monitor is viable as a secondary display? I already have the monitor around, but since it's not rotatable I can't really try this setup for myself.

It'd be 27' 1440p flat horizontally (main) and 24' 1080p curved vertically next to it.

I was Lawful Neutral, but gave my monitors to my wife in exchange for a better single monitor. Nothing special, just a 27" Samsung w/ a high refresh rate and richer blacks that I found difficult to achieve with my old monitors. I found that I rarely (if ever) used both of them. Only while looking up information in MMOs like Classic WoW, but I play those so seldom these days that I'm getting a lot out of a single.

Update with 5x5 grid and add ultrawide and HD/4k/Smartphone mixes.

What is neutral good called when the user keeps a large space between the monitors? That's pretty much all of my coworkers, and it drives me nuts.

That's called "my buttons are on the backside of the monitor"

Used to be a chaotic neutral, but realised that a full screen video doesn't work well with a display in portrait orientation (and even if I have a laptop below, it's too small). Neutral good right now with two 27"s; might add a 34" later on.

What is 3 landscape monitors with 1 portrait monitor?

Rotate Loss 90 degrees

This just seems random, but then I remember the 24 bad guys in Evil CTU using vertical monitors, so maybe there’s something in it.

Lawful neutral. I use a laptop instead of a desktop so I have no choice. I would get a second monitor but it would things very cramped.

I have chaotic good

Apparently the school requires me to be at the extreme end of lawful neutral. Two views, nonidentical, very different in size.

Neutral good originally, but I find lawful evil to be faaaaarrr better. Tilting my head up or down for extended periods feels a lot better than turning left or right

Lawful evil with two separate sized monitors is also really nice for those who like to game with a video on the second screen. Big screen for the game, small for the video/stream, and vertical order is up to preference.

I'm lawful neutral at the office, and true neutral at home!

Did no one notice the Linus meme face taking place of the Winblows flag?

Single monitor setup coming through. 🫠

Lawful neutral for me.

The wallpaper

Ex Lawful Evil, and If J had a secondary screen again I would to the same!

At home: Chaotic good but with three monitors that are all different sizes

At work: Two monitors side by side, and then one above them

How do you use the 3rd monitor above at the job?
- I do video editing, so I just use the two below for my timeline and media management, and the one on top as a full-screen viewer

Chaotic Neutral. Sounds about right.

Chaotic good alignment upsets my OCD the most

I'm the opposite. I can't have two monitors of the same size, because then it's like they're both primaries in my brain. With the chaotic good arrangement, it's very clear which one runs the games and which one runs YouTube or what have you

I’m chaotic good (but with the smaller one on the left)

I love the Linus looking through the window background! I'm surprised no one else has mentioned it yet.

Chaotic neutral on my work desk, lawful good on the gaming desk. Priorities.

I'm lawful neutral but I never look at my laptop screen when it's hooked up to the external monitor.

At home: Chaotic good but with three monitors that are all different sizes

At work: Two monitors side by side, and then one above them

True neutral. Only people with incapable OSs need multiple screens rather than having that one screen display what they want. 🙃