Why doesn’t plasma have this feature? I’m pretty sure there is a technical reason. This is pretty much the most customizable DE in existence, and missing a small feature like this seems odd to me.
Why doesn’t plasma have this feature? I’m pretty sure there is a technical reason. This is pretty much the most customizable DE in existence, and missing a small feature like this seems odd to me.
Doesn’t seem incredibly straightforward to me, since screens can be set up in any configuration relative to each other. You pretty much would have to implement multiple options to make everyone happy, at which point it’s not a small feature anymore.
it is straightforward. The system already knows the resolution and relative position of each screen, it’s how it renders a seamless desktop across monitors. Spanning a wallpaper just means treating all screens as a single canvas and cropping each monitor’s visible section from the full image. It’s no more complex than setting one large background and letting the compositor split it accordingly
Sure, that’s one approach. But there’s probably a bunch of people that have multiple screens layed out horizontally with slight vertical offsets, and they’d probably prefer the wallpaper to be assigned as if they were in one row.