looking for help on multimonitor setup

Django Reinhard django013 at gmx.de
Sun Mar 9 20:03:43 UTC 2025


Am Sonntag, 9. März 2025, 13:44:05 CET schrieb Carsten Haitzler:
> is your problem that kde splits the "desktop" screen by screen and each
> screen may have its own panels or when you maximize a window or go
> full-screen it maximizes/fullscreens on that screen as opposed to spanning
> all your monitors?

well - for me: one desktop means one background image of whole size and not 
one background image for each monitor.
And yes - it means too, if I maximize a window, it spans all monitors as 
opposed to span one single monitor only.

Xinerama worked that way - one desktop which spans multiple monitors.
KDE does not work that way. With kde you have 3 desktops, that fit together and 
you'll be able to size a window manually that spans all monitors. But it is 
not possible to maximize a window for all monitors.

Background image handling is a problem. In the beginning I thought, I might 
split the background image in 3 parts, so that each monitor shows a third of 
the whole image - but I like to use diashow for backgrounds, and it's not 
possible to sync background changes for all monitors (or at least I wasn't 
able to solve it).




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