On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 at 21:12:44 +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > Hi! > > I'm somewhat unhappy with the current state of Xinerama support in > wmsetbg. You can either have one large image stretching over the whole > Xinerama area, or the image stitched to every single head. > > That's fine for a panorama, or then your heads all have the same > aspect ratio. However, if (as I do) have one portrait and one > landscape screen, things start getting ugly. > > I'd like to patch wmsetbg to not only accept loading one single > image, but several, one for each physical head. Under usual usage, > there would only be a single image, but Xinerama users would get > one-image-per-head by stitching them all together in the complete > background pixmap. Unfortunately, having multiple images (one for each > head) won't work with "--u"pdate-wmaker, but it would be a > runtime-only thing. > > Are there any other suggestions getting a bit more flexible with > Xinerama setups? Things would be quite easier if there was an easy way > getting a head's current background image, so that an individual > head's background image could be changed on its own. (By re-using > other head's images.)
It would be great if you could patch wmsetbg to do what you want. You have a well-defined problem and you are in the position to test the solution... -- To unsubscribe, send mail to wmaker-dev-unsubscr...@lists.windowmaker.org.
