Multi-screen with non-uniform orientation and wallpaper centering problem

[Raf-UJ]

Short version:

Problem people like me are having with two or more screens not being aligned that's relatively easy to fix : resizing the overall resolution of all of the screens combined and allowing for shifting the center.

I am aware that not everyone will fall into this category but going off of a premise that many people would gain from this and also a quick way of "re-cropping" the wallpaper functionality that enhances customisation it's worth looking at. There's a minor bug as well.

Example: Digital Designer dual screen setup

Because of the screen mount I can't have it aligned "to the top edge" so I have to align them centrally. That's not an issue unless I have a wallpaper that has the central composition..

What could this look like for others:

here are the examples of the setup that would NOT work for wallpapers with centralised composition

and with simple visualisation:

with this particular wallpaper we can get away with it but a character that's a side-heavy composition will get cropped.

Solution

• [ ] implement functions to calculate overall size of the "canvas"
• [ ] implement function that will allow for shifting the canter by offsetting the entire "canvas"
• [ ] implement sliders for both horizontal and vertical shift separately
• Nice-to-have's:
  • [ ] tickbox for antialiased scaling "Enable safe scaling" (keeping the jump in ×4pix increments or maybe even something more complex with performance options in mind (light/heavy))
  • [ ] option to save the shift permanently
  • [ ] option to shift each screen separately via canvas duplication (this could be very heavy)

Bug

picking up the shared wallpaper changes the preview of the screen

log file: lively_log_20240724_105301.zip

[rocksdanister]

Personally I do not like adding sliders and too many configuration to the interface and instead try to keep things simple, will see what can be done (the visuals help, ty) but not a priority at the moment.

picking up the shared wallpaper changes the preview of the screen

Do you u mean the screens dont reflect the configuration in Span and duplicate? this is intentional and artistic choice by me.

tickbox for antialiased scaling "Enable safe scaling" (keeping the jump in ×4pix increments or maybe even something more complex with performance options in mind (light/heavy))

I do not understand Enable safe scaling, the scaling algorithm is handled by the browser (CEF) or video player (Mpv.)

[Raf-UJ]

Personally I do not like adding sliders and too many configuration to the interface and instead try to keep things simple (...)

Sure thing, it was merely a suggestion of what I had in my head. I am sure you'd like to keep in line with the current interface following the scheme - which on the sidenote - I absolutely love, your sections are making this app so easy to navigate! Slider was the first thing that came to mind when I thought about it. It could be anything as long as allows user to fine tune the placement. It could be just a CenterPoint really:

Do you u mean the screens don't reflect the configuration in Span and duplicate?

This was more about the fact it did reflect the orientation on Screen but not on the Span, I actually like the overlap, it just made me think that "I am an edge case and this configuration was unaccounted for". That's all really

I do not understand Enable safe scaling,

I meant the freehand centerpoint adjusting would result in non-dividable pixels so blurry/artefacts etc. but as you pointed out it's handled by the engine so it's most likely a non-issue.

It was more of a "here is my thought it could be useful" scenario. I realised typing that original suggestion that having that little calculation in place that only allows stepped scaling by a factor of (for example) 1.02 would solve majority of the scaling artefacts. So "as granular as you can BUT with a limiter" - if that makes sense?