Re: dual monitors - one desktop image spanning both?

[suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 20:08, Darryl L. Pierce <dpierce@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:49:18AM -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
>>
>> Is it possible to get one backdrop image in F16 to span both monitors in
>> a dual-monitor setup?  I'm using xfce4 and the desktop settings tool
>> seems to only offer a per-monitor image selection.  Is there some way of
>> selecting one image perhaps from gconfig directly?  Ditto for the login
>> screen.  Having the same cloned Verne image on both monitors is kind of
>> lame.  It would look a lot nicer if one image spanned both monitors.
>
> I *thought* you could tell it to "Span" when setting it (rather than
> zoom/tile/center/etc.). Is that option not available?

Its still per display. As for the OP, I don't think this is possible
in XFCE. You could split the image with imagemagick and use the two
images on the two displays.

Hope this helps.

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Suvayu

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