Bug 473019

Summary:	Allow combining monitors into one or more "monitor groups" on wayland
Product:	[Plasma] KScreen	Reporter:	K Freed <kortrax11>
Component:	common	Assignee:	kscreen-bugs-null <kscreen-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.27.7
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description K Freed 2023-08-05 00:22:07 UTC

SUMMARY
So first: my use case. I have quite a few old monitors that i'd like to combine together to create one big screen. Unfortunately currently it seems as though this is impossible. To fix this, my feature request involves allowing creation of a virtual monitor of custom resolution that can "contain" other monitors in a "group." This would be seen by windows as one big monitor. I'd love to be able to do this either through the system settings panel or the kscreen-doctor CLI tool. For example, i'd love to be able to combine two 1024x768 screens to become one 2048x768 screen using a virtual monitor group. Is this possible and what are the limitations? It seems like at least in system settings, the only feature that would need to be added would be a way to create custom virtual screens, which then you can stack real screens on top of.

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SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: 5.27.7
(available in About System)

Windowing system: wayland

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2023-08-07 22:26:10 UTC

Thanks for the idea, but I don't think this is something we'll be able to implement, sorry. We have enough trouble dealing with multiple monitors when they map cleanly to their own physical devices already!