Had a conversation earlier today about how I've got my system setup for working from home. So:
- Desktop (mine)
- Surface laptop (work's)
- Sits on a cookie cooling rack to deter overheating
- Dell Universal Dock 6000 (mine)
- Contains: HDMI and DisplayPort ports, USB ports, LAN; using USB or USB-C to connect to the Surface laptop
- My three home monitors are all hooked up to the display port
- Connected to Surface laptop via USB-C
- Wireless keyboard (with two Windows keys, thank you very much) and mouse (mine)
- KVM Switch (mine)
- Only using the mouse and keyboard connectors
- Connected to desktop and dell dock
- Video uses VGA, and is therefore not connected - someday I might get an HDMI-oriented KVM, however...
- Monitors - 3 Dell monitors (mine - mostly used from Kijiji)
- Each hooked up to dell dock and desktop via HDMI and DisplayPort (yes, its a lot of video cables...)
- Each monitor has been "programmed" so its buttons allow for easy switching of the input source via preset modes
- 1080 x 1920; 2560 x 1600 and 1200 x 1920
- Webcam (mine)
- This is manually swapped between work and and home PC. I don't use it very often for home-based things, so its not really a bother
- Headphones (mine)
- Sony WH-1000XM3
- Connect via bluetooth, so when swapping, re-pair with the respective computer
For working from home:
- Laptop runs Teams, Slack, and other similar communications. All A/V goes directly through it, rather than via the remote desktop (which doesn't make sense imo).
- A subset of monitors are used for displaying the work environment / remote desktop. See notes on how to do that here.
- I have a powershell script on my remote machine so when RDP invariably rearranges my windows layout, it resets to how I normally use it. Maybe I'll incorporate that here one day (uses GetWindow, SetWindow), but it sounds like some people have their own setups for this.