Re: wmsetbg: Better Xinerama support?

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...


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