So, I’ve finally finished revamping my command center since I decided to stay at my current employer and will continue to work from home. I no longer even have a cube at the office anymore, I camp out in a conference room when I need to be in the office. As such, I’ve virtualized both my laptop (XP) and workstation (Ubuntu) onto ESXi and run them from the office. Now, only screen re-draws need to transit down my U-Verse connection, and the shared apps I run on the corporate network are much faster.
Looking at my displays, if you start at the 12 o’clock position you have an rdesktop session to my work laptop. At the 2 o’clock is the VI Client session to my Work Ubuntu console. Both of these displays are driven by my work issued Dell c630 Laptop which is docked in the upper right corner. The laptop had the smallest power draw of any of the systems I had available (plus it can drive dual external displays)
At the 4 and 6 o’clock positions are the dual screens of my primary Linux Workstation. The 6
o’clock display has my ssh sessions to the various servers I administer, and the 4 o’clock has my web-browser and IRC client, both of which are bound to all my KDE virtual desktops. In IRC I track work colleagues, former ELNK colleagues, and my twitter feed.
On the left is my MacBook Pro, and its second display. I have all my personal email, personal web-browsing and all my IM sessions set-up there. I also have Fusion setup on there and will full-screen my Windows instance on the second display.
All three systems use synergy so that one keyboard and mouse controls all six displays. The Mac and Dell connect into the Shuttle which is where the mouse and keyboard are connected.
Resolution wise, my displays are a hodgepoge. Going clockwise the displays are: Dell 19WFP (1440×900), Dell (1280×1024), Dell 2009FWP (1680×1050), Dell 2007FP (1600×1200), MacBook Pro (1440×900) and Dell 2001FP (1600×1200).
The Dell 2009FWP also doubles as my HDTV for the U-Verse set-top on the upper right. The keyboard on the shuttle is for the laptop which I need to get it to connect to synergy on boot up.