Bug 357605 - Desktop grid should optionally merge all screens in one layout and clone the result across all screens
Summary: Desktop grid should optionally merge all screens in one layout and clone the ...
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: kwin
Classification: Plasma
Component: effects-window-management (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KWin default assignee
URL: http://askubuntu.com/questions/702456...
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Reported: 2016-01-06 06:42 UTC by Yousef H
Modified: 2016-01-11 10:42 UTC (History)
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Description Yousef H 2016-01-06 06:42:16 UTC
The URL describes the issue quite nicely. Please ignore this if possible.

 The current three layouts, are basically the same with one difference(AFAIK); one row, dynamic rows, or custom rows. I am not talking about those. layouts. The issue appears when one use multi monitors, where each monitor is showing its view of each VD(virtual desktop). What I want to suggest is, to have the whole VD show up in one monitor.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Thomas Lübking 2016-01-06 10:02:33 UTC
Tbh, this is unlikely gonna be supported since it very quickly reaches its limits, notably when there're more than two screens or generally the combined aspect ratio runs "out of bounds".

Also you're wasting quite some screen estate, notably when presenting windows in desktop grid.

On top of that this approach exposes windows on other screens (we frequently get bug reports when this happens because the audience is confronted with windows they're not supposed to see)

As the additional concept would add quite some (more) code complexity (lots of branches and code doubling) to a class that already is overly complex, there's probably much reluctance to add it as option, notably if the only pro of the concept is "I'm used to it from unity" - sorry.
Comment 2 Martin Flöser 2016-01-11 10:42:25 UTC
Sorry, this cannot work for screens with different aspect ratio. It's the same problem as cloning in general. Just doesn't work any more with the current available hardware.