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Improving usability on managing multi-monitor arrangement

A reddit user mentioned that they were having a lot of difficulty arranging their multi-monitor setup with the drag and drop arrangement option, as can be seen in the video below.

https://streamable.com/fnkjpw

My thinking is that we try to provide a simple drag and drop grid UI. Here is how it looks in the barrier app.

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An alternative suggestion would be to add buttons that arrange all the screens horizontally and vertically, to fix any drag and drop issues, as well as having a 4 navigation control that can swap or move the screens around, so its possible to do the arrangement without drag and drop.

Mockup
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