I am trying to find a solution that allows multiple wallpapers across different monitors on Gnome.
I am not looking to span one giant wallpaper across multiple monitors. I want four different wallpapers of my choosing on each of my monitors. Nitrogen still does not work on the latest Gnome release. At least, disabling Desktop in gnome-tweak-tool did not work, if there is another option I would appreciate it.
If anyone has a suggestion or uses a particular software I would love to hear about it.
Gnome doesn’t do what you want. I gave up on gnome for its many multi monitor issues(this one included). I’d also like to mention that gnome doesn’t handle mixed refresh rates well and just makes all displays sync to the lowest refresh rate display. From my experience open box DEs like xfce and i3 are the way to go for multimonitor.
Oddly enough, XFCE acts weird on my current setup. I cannot drag windows up and down between monitors, but I can go left and right. Going up causes it to stick halfway. Can’t move a window to the top monitor. No, I think @ropestretcher is right. KDE is the viable solution. Especially with Latte Dock, I seem to have transitioned rather nicely from Gnome.
I will test this on my other Gnome machine, thank you for the recommendation!
Looks like KDE is the decision. I wasn’t opposed to their desktop, but I like the stable dock that comes with Gnome. I found Latte-Dock for KDE and it has passed my staunch requirements.
understandable decision. the issues you had are definitely fixable, but XFCE is definitely not as polished and modern as kde ootb. I’ve had to change a lot of stuff around to make xfce work for me, for instance xfce doesn’t have a command to move an application window to the next display so I had to find a script someone wrote and map it.
I understand the workflow requirement which was why I didn’t want you to get the impression I was ribbing you. Latte-dock is pretty good - I’d give it a B maybe B+ - and it is what I use. I used Plank for a long time - also pretty good.
I don’t even begin to use the full feature set that exists in KDE but it does well. I have become very partial to Qt5 based applications and try to use those over anything else when possible. They tend to be zippier and will work better on KDE, obviously.
Rocco, from Destination Linux on YouTube, did a nice feature presentation for KDE/Plasma 5.10 about a year ago or so. If you watch through that is will speed you along toward where most of the controls can be found.
I run Plasma rolling on generic Arch Linux rolling and it is very stable so I would imagine the LTE of each together should be nice - say on Antergos. I need to try that for a while first before I go spouting off like that.
Yeah, I appreciate what all of the DEs have to offer. It’s been a while since I’ve used anything aside from Gnome or i3 out of the box. I’ve played with some things here and there, like Awesome, Cinnamon, KDE, and XFCE, but I always used Gnome on my workstation.
No harm no foul, though. It’s a nice environment and Alt + F2 works in a similar fashion on KDE lol.
I’ve forgotten how much I love Kate. My God, it’s still a damn good editor lol. I’m the same way, I never used Gnome much aside from the UI and the native shortcuts. I guess it’s time to move on Thanks for the advice. I think this is going to work out really well.
Something that is aesthetically pleasing, launches at start up, does not crash or stall out, immediate response, low on resources (while maintaining it’s bubbly and cuteness). I enjoy customization as well (hence the thread topic ), so being able to move the dock, resize icons, change/disable animations, etc.
For me, one of the best features of KDE is Krunner. Click on the desktop, start typing the thing I want, and there it is. That combined with Dolphin, Kate, wicked multidesktop switching are all icing on the Kake
I like just the command line. I love i3wm on a laptop. For the full DagWood Sandwich GUI though it is KDE/plasma all the way.
Mh, I thought that was what all Docks were doing, apart from the low resources, but OK I never really used any dock since… idk Vista days when RocketDock was still a thing Each their own
There are about 10 billion different programs out there that allow you to do the same thing on pretty much any DE, and some of them are even better than Krunner.
Last time I looked into this, albert was really popular. I am sure there is a new flavor of the month, but its something you might want to look into.
I just made one big image and spanned it with gnome tweak. Took a bit of tape measure and scaling to get it write(taking into account the bezels) but it works. EG
Thanks for the advice. I think this is going to work out really well.
), so being able to move the dock, resize icons, change/disable animations, etc.
