I have a system I just installed openSUSE 12.2 KDE on and it has 2 17" Dell CRT monitors attached to it.
It was easy enough to set the monitors to extend to each other, rather than clone each other.
How do I tell it (or CAN I tell it) to stretch one wallpaper across both monitors. So an extra-wide wallpaper would start on the left edge of the left monitor and end on the right edge of the right monitor?
Each time I tried it, it only effected the one monitor’s wallpaper and not the other.
I’m sure this is a KDE setting that I just haven’t found yet.
On 09/26/2012 11:26 PM, dragonbite wrote:
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> I have a system I just installed openSUSE 12.2 KDE on and it has 2 17"
> Dell CRT monitors attached to it.
>
> It was easy enough to set the monitors to extend to each other, rather
> than clone each other.
>
> How do I tell it (or CAN I tell it) to stretch one wallpaper across
> both monitors. So an extra-wide wallpaper would start on the left edge
> of the left monitor and end on the right edge of the right monitor?
>
> Each time I tried it, it only effected the one monitor’s wallpaper and
> not the other.
>
> I’m sure this is a KDE setting that I just haven’t found yet.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
I have two 23" monitors each with 1920x1080 resolution.
KDE too.
I make 3840x1080 pics, cut them in half and put half on each monitor.
Ultimately I would like to also set up changing wallpapers if possible, so that every so often it will change on its own. I guess it could be done this way, but I am pretty sure I am not the first person looking at wanting this and could be included in KDE. (just “where” I don’t know yet).
So far, Gnome/Gnome-shell/Unity is the only big-desktop I have used that doesn’t include auto-changing wallpaper feature (in Ubuntu have used Wallch which works pretty well).
Rotating wallpaper is secondary, compared to being able to take one picture and have it span the 2 monitors. That’s what I am hoping for.
Hi
Had a quick look at wallch it builds against GNOME:Ayatana fine. If
somebody wants it built, you need to contact the GNOME:Ayatana
maintainers/packagers and see if one will oblige; https://build.opensuse.org/project/users?project=GNOME%3AAyatana
I would suggest either damianator or chenxiaolong.
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What graphics card and drivers are you using dragonbite? The software you’re probably going to want to look at to make this work is Xinerama, this might help you X.Org/Dual Monitors - Gentoo Linux Wiki
Since this still shows up quite prominently in search results, I thought it’d be a good idea to mention that I whipped up a script which automates that process in the general case (any number of oddly-positioned monitors) and can also randomize.
(Hey, that “It’s my dang desktop and it’ll give me exactly what I want with minimal effort or else” attitude is the whole reason I’m using KDE stuff in the first place. )
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