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

sciguy sciguy at vex.net
Sun Aug 21 16:58:15 EDT 2022


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 at 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.
>> 
>> Paul
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