wallpaper icon indicating copy to clipboard operation
wallpaper copied to clipboard

Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon sindresorhus

Support for multiple screens on Windows

Open gpapin opened this issue 9 years ago • 9 comments

Hi,

I'm wondering how do you handle multiscreen configuration ? Are you setting the same image on different screen or can you assign an image as a wallpaper for a particular screen (or desktop in case of osx).

I can identify 3 use-cases :

  • Set genericWallpaper.jpg to screen all screen A,B,C
  • Set panoramicWallpaper.jpg to be a single image covering screen A,B,C
  • Set wallA.jpg and wallB.jpg to respectively cover screen A and B

gpapin avatar Apr 24 '15 11:04 gpapin

Currently I'm just setting the first screen. I'm not on a multiscreen config, so wasn't a priority.

Related: https://github.com/sindresorhus/osx-wallpaper/issues/2

sindresorhus avatar Apr 25 '15 06:04 sindresorhus

I'm on Ubuntu, with a multiscreen configuration and wallpaper.set set my wallpaper on both screens (first use-case).

dorian-marchal avatar Apr 25 '15 08:04 dorian-marchal

@dorian-marchal Yeah, it's hard to preserve the same behaviour cross-platform. It only sets the wallpaper on the first screen on OS X and Windows. No idea if there's any way to do the same on Ubuntu. https://github.com/sindresorhus/linux-wallpaper/blob/master/index.js

sindresorhus avatar Apr 26 '15 04:04 sindresorhus

I like it this way, I think this the desirable behaviour (unless wallpaper offers a way to change both screens independently).

dorian-marchal avatar Apr 26 '15 09:04 dorian-marchal

@dorian-marchal Yeah, I guess I could make that default for all platforms for now, but not sure, people in https://github.com/sindresorhus/osx-wallpaper/issues/2 seems to think differently.

sindresorhus avatar Apr 26 '15 09:04 sindresorhus

@sindresorhus, I don't think you can have different backgrounds on Linux (Ubuntu) on different screens by default, at least not without using an external tool. It's always going to use the same one on all screens.

kevva avatar Apr 29 '15 19:04 kevva

Support for multiple screens was added for macOS in v4.

sindresorhus avatar Oct 02 '18 08:10 sindresorhus

this App can set multiple screens on Windows But I won't C language. Maybe it will help you

https://github.com/Phantom12/Unsplash-Wallpaper-Windows

lqzhgood avatar Mar 13 '19 13:03 lqzhgood

Apparently, in order to set wallpapers for multiple monitors images must be combined into one and result wallpaper should be tiled. See stack overflow answer

nikolay-borzov avatar Jun 21 '19 09:06 nikolay-borzov