Re: background image spanning multiple monitors

[Stephen Adler <adler stephenadler com>]

Thank you very much.... I poked around the gnome-tweak-tool but missed
the spanned option. Thanks for pointing it out to me. My desktop
background is now breathtaking as it spans two Dell 4K 32" monitors.
Wow...

:)

Happy Gnome customer here...

Cheers. Steve.

On Tue, 2015-01-06 at 23:13 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 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