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Bug 604301 - Background Settings Per Monitor
Background Settings Per Monitor
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Background
git master
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
: 89347 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-12-10 19:21 UTC by David Walker
Modified: 2013-02-19 23:57 UTC
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Description David Walker 2009-12-10 19:21:44 UTC
Hi,

The 5 year old, recently closed bug of mine (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147808), wasn't resolved to what I thought I had asked for.  Long story short, that bug was resolved when the ability for one chosen background to display properly on separate screens (dual monitor setup).  This request however asks for the ability to set per-screen background images.

Since I'd believe the harder part of getting images to get to the right ratio on separate monitors has been completed this shouldn't be that hard, or hopefully.

--
dave
Comment 1 Chris Walker 2010-01-05 16:11:26 UTC
I really hope either this gets addressed in less than the 5+ years the other bug took or the other "fix" is amended to allow the background image to span across multiple monitors (as it used to).  As is stands (with the latest updates on Fedora 12 anyway) I can no longer set a background image that spans my dual monitors (twinview Nvidia setup).
Comment 2 amcnabb 2010-02-10 00:29:36 UTC
I'm having this problem, too, and would love to see a fix.  It would be great to either have the old working behavior (where a dual-screen image would span across both monitors) or something new that allows setting one image per monitor.
Comment 3 Jeremy Nickurak 2011-02-03 18:05:58 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 48004 ***
Comment 4 David Walker 2011-02-03 18:26:26 UTC
It's close to to a duplicate, however not quite.  bug 48004 asks for a single background per workspace.  This bug is asking for a single background per screen, given a dual head setup, one workspace would like to have 2 backgrounds, one for each screen.
Comment 5 Jeremy Nickurak 2011-02-03 21:18:34 UTC
Right. Shoot.
Comment 6 Jeremy Nickurak 2011-02-03 21:19:06 UTC
Downstream at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/153793
Comment 7 William Jon McCann 2012-07-20 05:14:58 UTC
*** Bug 89347 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 William Jon McCann 2013-02-19 23:57:45 UTC
I think it is safe to say we're aren't planning on doing this one.