Bug 505518 - WISHLIST: ability to configure wallpapers per specific external screen
Summary: WISHLIST: ability to configure wallpapers per specific external screen
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: KScreen
Classification: Plasma
Component: common (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 6.3.5
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kscreen-bugs-null@kde.org
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Reported: 2025-06-12 11:08 UTC by Sergio
Modified: 2025-06-12 17:06 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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2025-06-12 17:06 UTC, Sergio
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Description Sergio 2025-06-12 11:08:44 UTC
SUMMARY

KDE already has the ability to identify the external screen that is attached (by brand/model) and to apply some setting based on the specific screen (e.g. resolution, magnification, etc.)

Would be great to have the possibility to configure a wall paper for a specific screen.

Rationale: having a different wallpaper on the projector screen to give a presentation (e.g. institutional) than the one you have when you dock the laptop to your monitor (e.g. personal).
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2025-06-12 16:16:16 UTC
I think you may be mistaken; we aren't actually applying settings based on the specific monitor model. And there's a reason for this: we tried to implement that feature in the past, but it just can't work due to how difficult it is to persistently identify specific monitors. You might expect this to be easy, but in the real world it turns out to be practically impossible to do reliably.
Comment 2 Sergio 2025-06-12 17:06:36 UTC
Created attachment 182231 [details]
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Monitors should have something like a Mac address, sad they don't!

Il gio 12 giu 2025, 18:16 Nate Graham <bugzilla_noreply@kde.org> ha scritto:

> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505518
>
> Nate Graham <nate@kde.org> changed:
>
>            What    |Removed                     |Added
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> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>          Resolution|---                         |INTENTIONAL
>                  CC|                            |nate@kde.org
>              Status|REPORTED                    |RESOLVED
>
> --- Comment #1 from Nate Graham <nate@kde.org> ---
> I think you may be mistaken; we aren't actually applying settings based on
> the
> specific monitor model. And there's a reason for this: we tried to
> implement
> that feature in the past, but it just can't work due to how difficult it
> is to
> persistently identify specific monitors. You might expect this to be easy,
> but
> in the real world it turns out to be practically impossible to do reliably.
>
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