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#1 2008-03-29 05:46:35

phabulosa
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From: Mountain View, CA
Registered: 2007-10-17
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How to AWESOME wallpaper on dual monitors?

I have set up two monitors as Screen0 and Screen1 in xorg.conf

I am wondering how to display different wallpapers on these two monitors.

What can I put in my .xinitrc?

thanks

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#2 2008-03-29 12:23:12

BC
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Registered: 2008-01-29
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Re: How to AWESOME wallpaper on dual monitors?

I'd take two wallpapers and join them together in Gimp or something.  Then I'd just show that one wallpaper with an app like nitrogen or feh.

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#3 2008-03-29 12:44:28

fwojciec
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Registered: 2007-05-20
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Re: How to AWESOME wallpaper on dual monitors?

I think nitrogen has an option to set different walls on each screen, but the last time I tried it (a few months ago) this option didn't work correctly on my setup -- it worked fine when it was set for the first time but not after the restart of X.  It might be worth it to try it and see if things have improved...

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#4 2008-04-24 19:23:38

nightm4re
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Re: How to AWESOME wallpaper on dual monitors?

that was one of nitrogen's goals from its inception, as I run a dual monitor (non xinerama) setup.  if it's not working, please let me know what's wrong.

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#5 2009-04-17 20:00:45

scrllock
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From: Michigan, USA
Registered: 2008-06-04
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Re: How to AWESOME wallpaper on dual monitors?

Did this just now with nitrogen, worked great!

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#6 2009-04-17 20:24:05

webframp
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Registered: 2008-11-15
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Re: How to AWESOME wallpaper on dual monitors?

I use both nitrogen and feh. Sometimes I'm connected to a second monitor and sometimes not so I want the right wallpaper restored depending. I use the following in my .xinitrc:

if [ `xrandr | grep -c 3840` -ne 0 ]; then   # running dual-head
    nitrogen --restore                       # set different bg on each monitor
elif [ -f $HOME/.fehbg ]; then
    eval `cat ~/.fehbg`                      # set standard single screen bg
fi

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