Ubuntu Studio ver 22.04 Desktop (KDE) does not seem to allow for images spanning multiple screens
Hi For the record I am using Ubuntu Studio 22.04 with a KDE desktop (Plasma version 3.0). Unless I am missing something major, I don't see a way that KDE Plasma allows for expansion of a desktop graphic across two screens. Graphic dimensions I have in mind are something like: 3840 x 1080. When I load the graphic for the desktop in the settings, I just get the graphic on one screen. If I select the jpg from the file manager (Dolphin) to set as wallpaper, I get duplicate graphics on each monitor, rather than the same graphic spanning both monitors, which is what I want. If anyone can be of help I would appreciate it. Paul
Unfortunately there isn't a way to do this built into kde. There is a 3rd party solution at: https://github.com/hhannine/superpaper ------- Original Message ------- On Thursday, August 18th, 2022 at 5:33 AM, sciguy via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Hi
For the record I am using Ubuntu Studio 22.04 with a KDE desktop (Plasma version 3.0).
Unless I am missing something major, I don't see a way that KDE Plasma allows for expansion of a desktop graphic across two screens. Graphic dimensions I have in mind are something like: 3840 x 1080. When I load the graphic for the desktop in the settings, I just get the graphic on one screen. If I select the jpg from the file manager (Dolphin) to set as wallpaper, I get duplicate graphics on each monitor, rather than the same graphic spanning both monitors, which is what I want.
If anyone can be of help I would appreciate it.
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------- Original Message ------- On Thursday, August 18th, 2022 at 5:33 AM, sciguy via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Hi
For the record I am using Ubuntu Studio 22.04 with a KDE desktop (Plasma version 3.0).
Unless I am missing something major, I don't see a way that KDE Plasma allows for expansion of a desktop graphic across two screens. Graphic dimensions I have in mind are something like: 3840 x 1080. When I load the graphic for the desktop in the settings, I just get the graphic on one screen. If I select the jpg from the file manager (Dolphin) to set as wallpaper, I get duplicate graphics on each monitor, rather than the same graphic spanning both monitors, which is what I want.
If anyone can be of help I would appreciate it.
On Thu, 18 Aug 2022 at 11:27, gs via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Unfortunately there isn't a way to do this built into kde.
There is a 3rd party solution at: https://github.com/hhannine/superpaper
Probably not what you were looking for, but maybe better than installing an unknown third party piece of software: you can probably use a photo editor to slice your image into two pieces and use half as the background on one screen and half as the background on the other screen. (I'm not on a KDE machine right now - can't confirm it can do this, but I'd assume it can display different backgrounds on different monitors.) -- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr@gmail.com
On 2022-08-18 11:26, gs via talk wrote:
Unfortunately there isn't a way to do this built into kde.
There is a 3rd party solution at: https://github.com/hhannine/superpaper
Thanks! This seems to be the only possible solution. I am surprised that KDE didn't think about this. Do they not realize that multiple monitors have been an ongoing "thing" for at least the past 5-10 years?
------- Original Message ------- On Thursday, August 18th, 2022 at 5:33 AM, sciguy via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Hi
For the record I am using Ubuntu Studio 22.04 with a KDE desktop (Plasma version 3.0).
Unless I am missing something major, I don't see a way that KDE Plasma allows for expansion of a desktop graphic across two screens. Graphic dimensions I have in mind are something like: 3840 x 1080. When I load the graphic for the desktop in the settings, I just get the graphic on one screen. If I select the jpg from the file manager (Dolphin) to set as wallpaper, I get duplicate graphics on each monitor, rather than the same graphic spanning both monitors, which is what I want.
If anyone can be of help I would appreciate it.
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How about playing with "snap" flag? If you move a window box close to screen or other boundaries, it snaps to it. Maybe turning it off? On 2022-08-21 16:58, sciguy via talk wrote:
On 2022-08-18 11:26, gs via talk wrote:
Unfortunately there isn't a way to do this built into kde.
There is a 3rd party solution at: https://github.com/hhannine/superpaper
Thanks! This seems to be the only possible solution. I am surprised that KDE didn't think about this. Do they not realize that multiple monitors have been an ongoing "thing" for at least the past 5-10 years?
------- Original Message ------- On Thursday, August 18th, 2022 at 5:33 AM, sciguy via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Hi
For the record I am using Ubuntu Studio 22.04 with a KDE desktop (Plasma version 3.0).
Unless I am missing something major, I don't see a way that KDE Plasma allows for expansion of a desktop graphic across two screens. Graphic dimensions I have in mind are something like: 3840 x 1080. When I load the graphic for the desktop in the settings, I just get the graphic on one screen. If I select the jpg from the file manager (Dolphin) to set as wallpaper, I get duplicate graphics on each monitor, rather than the same graphic spanning both monitors, which is what I want.
If anyone can be of help I would appreciate it.
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