The phrase "a desktop screen" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the display monitor of a desktop computer.
Example: "I prefer working on a desktop screen because it provides a larger display for multitasking."
Alternatives: "a computer monitor" or "a desktop display."
A phone or tablet is close to your body, but a desktop screen is far away and vertical, which makes precision finger movements awkward.
It's surprisingly more enjoyable to view your digital camera's photos in an attractive frame on the wall than on a desktop screen.
Many physicians prefer tablet PCs because they more closely resemble their familiar paper notepads and make for easier communication with the patient, since the doctor is not behind a desktop screen.
Ours is an era during which a whole year's worth of developments rule-wise can be brought up on a desktop screen already broken down by subject and subdivided into discrete topics.
That observation echoes one heard for years in another field of computer research — user-interface experts who have long bemoaned the "tyranny of the desktop metaphor" (document and file icons strewn across a "desktop" screen) as locking in the past in personal computing.
Soon after that he had read an article called "As We May Think" by Vannevar Bush, imagining a future in which everyone's own library of memories, books and memoranda was instantly retrievable on a desktop screen, rather than in the little notebooks he carried in his top shirt pocket.
The protocol includes a desktop screening process and laboratory and modeling analyses.
For a brief moment, the stage's screen showed a tablet, likely a 7-inch, alongside a Nokia 620 and a large desktop screen, possibly demonstrating a Surface Pro-ish device.
That was the original plan for the new Microsoft operating system, a default desktop screen with a pristine countryside scene uncluttered by icons.
They can also be used with a simplified desktop screen that hides options, for those who need just a few functions, said Rob Sinclair, director for accessibility at Microsoft.
I still try to avoid Metro apps as much as I can (they just don't make much sense to me on a big desktop screen), but I can see how they'll look great on a tablet.
