Re: background image spanning multiple monitors

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2015-01-06 at 15:18 -0500, Stephen Adler wrote:
> Guys,
>
> I'm trying to setup my desktop with a background image which spans
> multiple monitors. In my case 4. As I poked around on the internet, it
> looks like the mult-monitor "spanning" option has been removed from the
> latest version of Gnome. (I'm running fedora 21.) Any reason why it was
> removed?

It was removed from the Background panel because it was almost always a
poor choice. See this enhancement bug:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=691883#c3

> My main issue, and its basically a visual one, is that I have 2 4K
> monitors, and the monitors I have use MST tiling. So one each monitor, I
> have two copies of the background image, tiled side by side.

Sounds like you want the MST tiles to act as a single monitor, which is
something that Dave Airlie is working on.

>  It would be
> nice to get rid of this tiled background. (I can't use xinerama since if
> I enable xinerama it kills the composite feature in the nvidia driver
> and gnome won't load.)
>
> Anyhow... Just asking. (If there's a work around that would be great.)

While waiting for proper MST support, you can use gnome-tweak-tool to
set the background to "spanned". See under the "Desktop" section.

Cheers