Comment 27 for bug 521492

I made a python script (with PIL) that fixes the situation for me
by tiling several images into one (according to what xrandr tells
about the screen sizes), I can put it up somehwere, if people are
interested ... ? It needs a little cleaning up first, though.

Cheers,

 Taneli

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 01:17:08AM -0000, Coz wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 3:15 PM, jcuhoh <email address hidden>
> wrote:
>
> > Has anyone found an acceptable workaround for this issue? The workaround
> > in comment #2 DID NOT work for me, simply centered the image between the
> > monitors.
> >
> > --
> > Dual Monitor wallpaper is not scaling across both monitors, same background
> > is repeated on both monitors instead
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/521492
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> > of the bug.
> >
>
>
> hey guy,
> Well apparently no one is going to fix this.
> What I do is determine the resolution of both monitors... example..my total
> is 2560x1024, so I either google for images at the resolution or
> edit/create one in gimp.
> This is more than a pain in the rear and several steps backwards for
> linux ...but no one is addressing this and ,,by the way ,,, it is worse on
> KDE.
>
> coz
>
> --
> Dual Monitor wallpaper is not scaling across both monitors, same background is repeated on both monitors instead
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/521492
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> of a duplicate bug (520856).
>
> Status in GNOME Control Center: New
> Status in “meta-gnome2” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> On all other Ubuntu/Gnome versions you can use a wallpaper sized for dual-monitor and it will span across both monitors, currently the same wallpaper is being repeated twice, once on each monitor.
>
> Appears to be https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=603551 regarding scaling wallpaper across dual monitors
>
> If Nautilus' wallpaper manager is replaced by Compiz's, the wallpaper scales correctly.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Sat Feb 13 14:45:06 2010
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100113)
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: gnome (not installed)
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_US.utf8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-13.18-generic
> SourcePackage: meta-gnome2
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-13-generic x86_64
>
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