Re: dual monitors - one desktop image spanning both?

2012-03-28 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com writes: You could split the image with imagemagick and use the two images on the two displays. It turns out splitting the image gives one the option of leaving a gap between the left and the right images. My monitors have a 1.7 gap from the frams between

dual monitors - one desktop image spanning both?

2012-03-27 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
Is it possible to get one backdrop image in F16 to span both monitors in a dual-monitor setup? I'm using xfce4 and the desktop settings tool seems to only offer a per-monitor image selection. Is there some way of selecting one image perhaps from gconfig directly? Ditto for the login screen.

Re: dual monitors - one desktop image spanning both?

2012-03-27 Thread Darryl L. Pierce
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:49:18AM -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Is it possible to get one backdrop image in F16 to span both monitors in a dual-monitor setup? I'm using xfce4 and the desktop settings tool seems to only offer a per-monitor image selection. Is there some way of

Re: dual monitors - one desktop image spanning both?

2012-03-27 Thread suvayu ali
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 20:08, Darryl L. Pierce dpie...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:49:18AM -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Is it possible to get one backdrop image in F16 to span both monitors in a dual-monitor setup?  I'm using xfce4 and the desktop settings tool seems

Re: dual monitors - one desktop image spanning both?

2012-03-27 Thread Wolfgang S. Rupprecht
suvayu ali fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com writes: You could split the image with imagemagick and use the two images on the two displays. Thanks. That's effectively what I ended up doing (using gthumb). -wolfgang -- g+: https://plus.google.com/114566345864337108516/about -- users mailing list

Re: dual monitors - one desktop image spanning both?

2012-03-27 Thread Roger
On 28/03/12 04:49, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Is it possible to get one backdrop image in F16 to span both monitors in a dual-monitor setup? I'm using xfce4 and the desktop settings tool seems to only offer a per-monitor image selection. Is there some way of selecting one image perhaps from