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[w-engine][FEATURE] Allow setting one wallpaper for all monitors #313

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@vivien-delta

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  • I have searched existing issues and confirmed this has not been requested before.
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  • This is about a community plugin, not about Noctalia itself (those belong in the noctalia repo).

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w-engine

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Configuration / customization

Feature summary

An ability to toggle between setting one wallpaper for all monitors or multiple on a per-monitor basis.

Motivation / use case

I have two monitors and am considering buying another. I will never have their backgrounds differ across my displays. I do appreciate multi-monitor selection as the baseline, but setting two (potentially more) wallpapers every time I do layout changes is something I find very cumbersome, especially since it means palettes will not always generate for Noctalia depending on which monitor I choose first.

Proposed solution

Currently, W-Engine has a dropdown menu to select which monitor you'd like to place the wallpaper on. I think a separate section titled All that sets the flags for every one, even if the update is asynchronous due to pushing multiple commands, would be the best way to go about this.

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References / related projects

jagrat7's linux-wallpaper-engine-ux project has this functionality.

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