Bug 795993

Do you see the default on _both_ displays? Or just the new one?

I'll see if I can track this down some.

Oh, now I realize I wasn't totally clear. Sorry about that. 

This happens when I'm in CLONE mode, both displays show the same. Thus the default is on both :) 

I've tested this in setup where I have the same resolution on both displays. And another time in setup where internal display resolution > external display resolution. No change. Clone always shows the default background. 


It doesn't happen in Cinerama setup, when the desktops are side-by-side (3840x1080) or under each other (1920x2160). One desktop shows my selected background and the other one the default. It's not perfect though - depending on in what order I enable/disable the displays my selected background is displayed either on the primary display or the secondary.

Did you already set a background for the second display in xfdesktop-settings? Once you attach a second display, the tab "Background" has sub-tabs, one tab for each display and you can (or better should be able to) set the wallpapers individually. I guess what happens is that the second display is configured to use the system default wallpaper, which then gets mirrored.

Could be. 

Indeed if I set the desired background for the second display, then it gets me where I want to be. See my little son chasing a rabbit while I work :)

On the other hand, I'm unable to set a background for individual desktops. Even though I see 2 tabs (for 2 desktops/displays), changing any one of those changes BOTH background at the same time.

So, then the bug here is that you can't set background for each desktop? 
Or?

So the bug is actually a few issues: 

 * having a default background, it's changed to something else if I connect another display (until I set the background for the second display to show the same)

 * I can't have a different background for each desktop, even though the dialog suggests I can. I don't mind if the limitation is one background for all desktops and only the dialog gets modified. 

 * if only 1 background is set, it depends on how the external displays are organized and it's a bit random what's shown on the main

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