GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 604301
Background Settings Per Monitor
Last modified: 2013-02-19 23:57:45 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
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).
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.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 48004 ***
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.
Right. Shoot.
Downstream at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/153793
*** Bug 89347 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I think it is safe to say we're aren't planning on doing this one.