[GTALUG] Ubuntu Studio ver 22.04 Desktop (KDE) does not seem to allow for images spanning multiple screens

[Giles Orr]

> ------- Original Message -------
> On Thursday, August 18th, 2022 at 5:33 AM, sciguy via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
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> > 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 at gtalug.org> wrote:
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> Unfortunately there isn't a way to do this built into kde.
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> 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.)

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