Variety

Multimonitor Support

Asked by Jon Champagne

Just wondering if multimonitor support is in the works. I like to use variety to shuffle through a folder of images but it doesn't work quite ideally on two monitors of different sizes.

If it's not in the works, how hard would it be to write a plugin or the likes? I'm not very familiar with python, but am open to learning and have a strong understanding of other languages like java, javascript, and even a bit of bash. I'm thinking the easiest way for a plugin to solve this would be to set the DE to span the wallpaper over both screens. Then in variety there would be a dialog to input the dimensions of the various monitors (in my case 1440x900 and 1600x900) and use imagemagic to resize the selected images to fit the screens and then attach the two images together to finally set as the wallpaper.

As I said, not that familiar with python so i haven't really looked through the code yet. Is this feasible with the current codebase?

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Best Peter Levi (peterlevi) said : 		#1

Basically what you want can be achieved with scripting in the set_wallpaper script, but is too specific and complex to support out of the box. Please read my answer in the bug description.

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Jon Champagne (jayseejc3191) said : 		#2

Thanks for the quick answer. I'll get on that soon. I might set up a repository for people to add their customizations to set_wallpaper for people to put up their custom scripts. Would you be up for putting a link up around here for it if I do, so people who like to tinker can find it?

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Jon Champagne (jayseejc3191) said : 		#3

Thanks Peter Levi, that solved my question.