Different wallpapers in multimonitor screen
Hi folks
I wonder if Variety is able to display at the same time different wallpaper on a multimonitor screen ?
I mean, I am under xubuntu 14.04 using 3 screens (all the same resolution), and I cannot have 3 different wallpapers, one per screen, using Variety (a wonderful soft however), as I could do using the basic screen manager from xfce4.
Do you have an idea ?
Cheers
Francois
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- Status:
- Solved
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- Variety Edit question
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- Solved by:
- Ftarkin
- Solved:
- 2014-07-29
- Last query:
- 2014-07-29
- Last reply:
- 2014-07-29
Peter Levi (peterlevi) said : | #1 |
Most desktop environments do not support this, so there is no dedicated support in Variety for this.
However, XFCE does support it and Variety can be hacked to use it.
The key is editing the XFCE-related portion in ~/.config/
This has been done, but the instructions are somewhat outdated, but can be adapted to the current state of things: http://
If you manage to get it working, please write here and/or in the Wiki.
Ftarkin (francois-sabot) said : | #2 |
Hi folks, I succeeded in fact ^^
Here is the code I used (I will put the complete script in the wiki), working for my displays, based on what exists on the wiki
#Adding multimonitor support
CMFILE=
CM=$(cat $CMFILE)
if [[ $rc = 0 ]] ; then
for i in $(xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p /backdrop -l|egrep -e "screen.
done
fi
#Configuring the next monitor to
DP0="DisplayPort-0"
DP1="DisplayPort-1"
DVI="DVI-0"
if [[ $CM = $DP0 ]]; then
NM="DisplayPort-1"
rm $CMFILE
echo $NM > $CMFILE
elif [[ $CM = $DP1 ]]; then
NM="DVI-0"
rm $CMFILE
echo $NM > $CMFILE
elif [[ $CM = $DVI ]];then
NM="DisplayPort-0"
rm $CMFILE
echo $NM > $CMFILE
else
notify-send "Not the good monitor to be configured"
fi