I bought a Samsung 34” ultra wide monitor for the express purpose of being able to arrange multiple windows however I deemed necessary for productivity. Only to find out that it natively only offers a single vertical split. The software they provide to offer more split options simply does not work the way it says it will. And DisplayFusion software is no better.

Is it seriously 2018 and we still don’t have a simple way to make the most of a widescreen monitor? Good grief!!!!!

@irene It could well be an ultrawide (i.e. 21:9 ratio), so it's only the height of a 27"

It's indeed 21:9 ultrawide. I am getting older and so my vision is going. In trying to procrastinate getting bifocals, I got this instead. I can't even set a custom window size. It's just full width all the time, unless I do the measly single vertical split. Not happy at all. I guess I didn't do enough homework, but judging by the lack of other people talking about this, I don't know how I would have been able to find out until I bought it. Am I the only person who sees this as a problem?

Shouldn't be a problem with tmux, screen or i3wm :)

After an hour on the phone with Samsung support, they're telling me that it's because Windows has released several new updates _since 2017 when Samsung last updated their drivers_ and that _they haven't been keeping pace with Windows updates_. Actually admitted that to me. Then that guy sent me to Sales who I had to first teach the basic concept of wanting to resize a browser window to a custom size, or tile or stack windows (which this monitor isn't allowing). They then sent me back to support...to the SAME GUY...who continues to assert that this is normal and that I can't expect them to update their drivers to work with the latest version of Windows because, you know, tough luck. Unbelievable. How does Samsung stay in business?

@stackodev If you don't constantly need to switch windows, it can be done without extra software.

Snap a window to the left. Snap another when Windows offers you the rest of the windows so the other one snaps to the remaining space on the right. Resize both to the left so the left one takes up approximately one third of the width. Hold down Ctrl and resize the right window from its left edge (holding Ctrl ensures that you're only resizing that one window, not both). Snap the third window to the right and resize it from its right edge.

I know, it might sound tedious when you read it, but it's not that hard in practice.

I think, in windows, you can maximize the window vertically.
Also there is a program that allows you to set custom split layouts, i used it for my vertical display. Just don't remember the name.

This is why I run 3 separate monitors for working. I can have up 6 windows open in front of me at any one time.

Though I do tend to just keep it to 3: web browser, IDE, terminal (on a vertical 24")

@kamen that’s exactly what I was expecting to be able to do at a minimum. But nope. This monitor has its own idea of what window management ought to be like. It’s completely opposite of everything that you’d expect to be able to do.

So I had an epiphany. I remembered that I had applied the latest Windows update just about the same time I plugged in the monitor. I rolled it back. Lo and behold, everything works right again with window management. Microsoft changed how it allows you to do windowing in the latest update. Like, someone (probably “Karen” in Marketing) there said, “I’m no expert, but let’s shake things up a bit. Let’s make it so that the thing people have been doing since Windows 3.0 is no longer a thing.”

I hate you, Karen.