I recently started using a new machine with two 20" flat panels used as one giant desktop with Xinerama. It's very nice and comfortable, but X isn't yet smart enough to manage the backgrounds of the two screens separately, and wants one image stretched across the whole desktop.
So here's how to turn two 1680x1050 images such as these into one 3360x1050 image with ImageMagick:
$ montage -size 3360x1050 -geometry +0+0 left-image.jpg right-image.jpg result.jpg
It's much easier than assembling the images manually in The Gimp.
20 May 2007
How to create Xinerama-friendly desktop backgrounds
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Nought to do with X: look at whatever's managing your background for Xinerama-awareness.
I *knew* ImageMagick could do this. Only I couldn't figure out the command line for it, so I wrote myself a Python script for this. :-)
What about a photograph of your actual desk with the screens?
Daniel: right, I guess I meant GNOME instead of X...
Hendry: it's nothing special really...
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