Bug 499447 - Remember wallpapers per physical monitor or resolution
Summary: Remember wallpapers per physical monitor or resolution
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Image & Slideshow wallpaper plugins (show other bugs)
Version: 6.2.5
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2025-02-03 08:31 UTC by Karl-Johan Karlsson
Modified: 2025-02-19 16:49 UTC (History)
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Description Karl-Johan Karlsson 2025-02-03 08:31:01 UTC
SUMMARY

I use slideshow wallpapers, centred without scaling, with manually pre-sized images in one directory per resolution, individually set per screen, i.e.:
~/backgrounds/1920x1080/
~/backgrounds/1920x1200/
~/backgrounds/2560x1440/
I have a laptop with a 1920x1200 built-in monitor, and regularly move between external monitors with the other resolutions as well (the most common ones are 2560x1440 over DP through a USB-C docking station, dual 1920x1200 over DP through another USB-C docking station, and 1920x1080 over HDMI).

When I switch monitors, it seems to be random which directory the desktop on the new monitor gets its wallpapers from, and I often have to manually change to the correct one. E.g. I plug in to the docking station with the 2560x1440 monitor, and Plasma displays wallpapers on that monitor from ~/backgrounds/1920x1200/, giving me images with the wrong aspect ratio and a large black border.

I would prefer it if Plasma could remember the wallpaper configuration per physical monitor, or per screen resolution.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

Operating System: Fedora Linux 41
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.10.0
Qt Version: 6.8.1
Kernel Version: 6.12.9-200.fc41.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1255U
Memory: 31.0 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics