Different wallpapers for different monitors?

By sophiesboy Posted March 28, 2008 23:23:41

I haven't been able to do this, so I wanted to know - is it possible, when running two monitors off my system, to have a different wallpaper on each monitor?

Right now I seem to be able to do one of two things:

1) "Extend the desktop" across both monitors, which lets me move programs from one screen to the other, but simply replicates the wallpaper on each screen

or

2) "Stretch" the first monitor across both monitors, which takes the wallpaper and continues it from monitor 1 through monitor 2, giving it a very distorted effect.

I have seen people create wallpapers with a "left-side" and a "right-side" image, so I imagine what I want to do is possible, but I have not been able to figure out how.

At the moment I have moved back to a 256MB ATI Radeon x1300/x1550 Series, XP SP2. Left Side monitor 22" 1680x1050; right side monitor 17" 1280x1024

Any advice?

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In windows you can set only one wallpaper no matter how many monitors you have. Maybe exist somewhere a software that can help you.

Ultramon? http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/tour/wallpaper.asp

Create a blank image 2960x1024 and paste you images into it. use the tile setting.
No other software needed.

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I'm running Vista Ultimate and using DisplayFusion.

http://www.binaryfortress.com/displayfusion/

Here are just a few of the things you can do with DisplayFusion:

Set a different desktop wallpaper on each monitor (either a picture or solid colour)
Set a desktop wallpaper that spans all monitors (either a picture or colour)
Change your desktop wallpaper on a timer
Easily manage application windows with fully customizable hotkeys:
Move windows to the next monitor
Move windows to the next monitor and maximize them
Move windows to centre of the screen
Move windows to centre of the screen and size it to 75% of the work area
Tile windows along the top, bottom, left or right side
Maximize windows so that they span all monitors
Customize your own hotkey to do anything you can imagine

After configure the wallpapers the way you want you don't need to let the application running in the background or even let it start with Windows.

Thanks Galthariel,

So far the free version of Display Fusion is letting me do exactly what I wanted.

Now I have to build up a library of appropriate images to take advantage of the program.

Thanks again.

There used to be a program at coding4fun doing this either.. just can't find it anymore

While UltraMon (or DisplayFusion) is useful if you only have a few different images you'll manually be placing on your desktop from time to time, I recommend Wallpaper Master Pro (http://jamesgart.com/wallpaperchanger/index.html) for people who have lots of dual/spanning images across many directories. I've used everything out there on my five monitor desktop and the only wallpaper changer I purchased was this one. Enjoy.