Why doesn’t plasma have this feature? I’m pretty sure there is a technical reason. This is pretty much the most customizable DE in existence, and missing a small feature like this seems odd to me.

  • DonutsRMeh@lemmy.worldOP
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    8 days ago

    it is straightforward. The system already knows the resolution and relative position of each screen, it’s how it renders a seamless desktop across monitors. Spanning a wallpaper just means treating all screens as a single canvas and cropping each monitor’s visible section from the full image. It’s no more complex than setting one large background and letting the compositor split it accordingly

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      8 days ago

      Sure, that’s one approach. But there’s probably a bunch of people that have multiple screens layed out horizontally with slight vertical offsets, and they’d probably prefer the wallpaper to be assigned as if they were in one row.