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The Cinnamon screen locker and screensaver program
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Cinnamon Screensaver doesn't respect Cinnamons "Spanned" option from wallpaper setting #127

Open imarkskinner opened 8 years ago

imarkskinner commented 8 years ago

So I have an awkward multi-monitor setup and I kept having this bug whereby the primary wallpaper would not display correctly (not important here) which led me to make my own tiled wallpaper to span both monitors mint18-designer If I use this weird mismatched wallpaper and set cinnamon to 'span' the wallpaper then it appears nicely like this screenshot from 2016-07-07 20-09-33 Looks weird I know but that's my setup, deal. This also in a roundabout way let me set different wallpapers on my two monitors which I don't think Cinnamon let's you do yet.

Any way skip to the end, this is how the image appears when the screensaver kicks in (I couldn't seem to grab a screen from the lock screen, so photo it is, sorry about the poor quality). Hopefully though you can see the wallpaper in the screen saver defaults to the standard option which is to scale the wallpaper to each screen, something which I would not think to be expected behaviour. Hopefully this is an easy on, but it's not exactly a showstopper for me img_20160707_201201

imarkskinner commented 8 years ago

Looks like this has also been noticed previously too https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver/issues/92

imarkskinner commented 7 years ago

I've just updated the title to only include the "Spanned" option as it seems after some testing that cinnamon-screensaver DOES respect the "Zoomed" "Stretched" and "Scaled" option but just will not respect the "Spanned" setting.

NanoExplorer commented 6 years ago

So here's an interesting additional development - I use a spanned wallpaper, and I see the correct behavior.

screenshot from 2017-11-07 21-58-37

However, if I use an animated screensaver it makes it look strange, with about half of it on one monitor and half on the other. (The white line was added by me - it represents approximately where the animation gets split in two by the monitors)

screenshot from 2017-11-07 21-22-58

Would there be any way to make the lock screen and screensaver settings independent?