[CentOS] (?) Dual-monitor wallpapers on CEntOS 6

Thu Jun 7 21:08:13 UTC 2012
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Jay Leafey wrote:
> I've recently set up two workstations running CentOS 6, one with an
> nVidia card and the elrepo drivers and one with an ATI Radeon card with
> the elrepo fglrx drivers.  Both work well, but one aspect of the systems
> works different from CEntOS 5 on those systems:  I cannot get a
> wallpaper image to span the two monitors.  I have tried both with and
> without xinerama and there is no difference in this regard.  The
> specified wallpaper is displayed on both monitors.
>
> Has anybody else run across this or a solution?  I freely admit, this is
> a trivial issue.  It's strictly an aesthetic matter and I'm curious as
> to why it doesn't work the same.  Just wonderin'

For the nVidia one, are you using the nVidia X server setting applet?

       mark