Variety

XFCE Multiple Monitors Different Wallpapers

Asked by Jim Gregory

I have two monitors and I want to use Variety to change the wallpaper on monitor 2 only. I used to be able to accomplish this on the Xfce desktop by modifying the file ~/.config/variety/scripts/set_wallpaper and the command xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p /backdrop/screen0/monitor0/image-path -s"$1" 2> /dev/null. By changing monitor0 to monitor1 the wallpaper only changed on my second monitor. I recently did a fresh re-install of my operating system and I noticed that the latest version of Variety does not include this command. I tried inserting this command, but that only resulted in no wallpapers being changed at all. I greatly appreciate any advice on how to make this happen. Thanks.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#1

This question was expired because it remained in the 'Open' state without activity for the last 15 days.

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Jim Gregory (jgregory) said : 		#2

I'm still having this issue.

On 08/28/2014 08:04 AM, Launchpad Janitor wrote:
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Best Peter Levi (peterlevi) said : 		#3

XFCE changed the way for setting the wallpaper and Variety was updated accordingly. You can still edit the XFCE section in ~/.config/variety/scripts/set_wallpaper. You can see what the monitor IDs are by running

xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p /backdrop -l|egrep -e "screen.*/monitor.*image-path$" -e "screen.*/monitor.*/last-image$"

You may also use tips from here: http://peterlevi.com/variety/wiki/Script_xfce_three_monitor

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Jim Gregory (jgregory) said : 		#4

Thank you very much.