magaman598
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Is there any way to do this within windows? I've been tinkering quite a bit with it and the only thing I've found is doing it through software.
Anyone have any ideas?
Anyone have any ideas?
Streching one background over two displays?
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hellokitty[hk]
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Cut it in half?
magaman598
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Even if I did that I'd get the same picture on both monitors
hellokitty[hk]
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You would? So you have to use the same picture for each monitor? Oh, too bad, I don't know.
gbhall
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PURE GUESS
Display properties has options Centre, Tile and Stretch. Only tile is likely to give good results, and even then, the original image must probably have the exact dimensions of one screen
e.g If one monitor is 1280x1024 pixels, that would have to be the size of your background file, stored in (typically) C:\windows\web\wallpaper as a JPG
Or alternatively, create an image 2560x1024 Make it only 256 colours if you are short of memory.
Display properties has options Centre, Tile and Stretch. Only tile is likely to give good results, and even then, the original image must probably have the exact dimensions of one screen
e.g If one monitor is 1280x1024 pixels, that would have to be the size of your background file, stored in (typically) C:\windows\web\wallpaper as a JPG
Or alternatively, create an image 2560x1024 Make it only 256 colours if you are short of memory.
Leeky
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As above. I do it buy creating an image the total width of my displays combined in pixels, by the height.
E.g. I have 1920x1080 on one display, and 1680x1050 on another. So I make the wallpaper 3600x1080 pixels, and then set it to span in the wallpaper settings and it then fills the desktop space entirely.
E.g. I have 1920x1080 on one display, and 1680x1050 on another. So I make the wallpaper 3600x1080 pixels, and then set it to span in the wallpaper settings and it then fills the desktop space entirely.
magaman598
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I've tried the tile and stretch options but I haven't had any luck, I also have 2 1920x1080 displays and the dimensions of the desktop are 3840x1080 and I have the wall paper as the same but I haven't had any luck.
magaman598
Posts: 188 +2
I wanna do something like what's done in this picture.
https://www.techspot.com/gallery/your-desktop-looks/p3556-kde-4-2-4.html
https://www.techspot.com/gallery/your-desktop-looks/p3556-kde-4-2-4.html
Leeky
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Well you need a background thats near the size you want to use, otherwise when you resize it, it will look awful.
Here is mine in W7:
Here are the settings:
I appologise, you need to set the wallapaper to span in Linux, not in Windows. For Windows 7 you set it to tile, as per the above images.
Here is mine in W7:
Here are the settings:
I appologise, you need to set the wallapaper to span in Linux, not in Windows. For Windows 7 you set it to tile, as per the above images.
magaman598
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magaman598
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You lost me there Red. =P
I'll poke around in my Nvidia control panel and update my drivers and I'll get back to you guys
red1776
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What I was trying to say is that if you have a photo editing software, you can create your own custom multi monitor resolution wallpapers and save them in windows 'personalization'.
*** oh...nevermind
magaman598
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'personalization'.
*** oh...nevermind
Oh how dare you say that word. =P
red1776
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magaman598
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magaman598
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magaman598
Posts: 188 +2
I've also heard that, but then again, try not to get any pins near em eh?
That'd be an expensive fix.
That'd be an expensive fix.
magaman598
Posts: 188 +2
Leeky, any possibility of getting a few screenies of your settings and such to see if I'm setting something wrong?
magaman598
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Had one of the monitors refresh rate at 59 Hz instead of having them both at 60, could that be a problem?
