Multihead experience

[Nate Graham]

Hello Django,

Thanks for reaching out. This is not really a visual design topic; more 
a technical one. The wallpaper part of it is tracked by this Bugzilla 
ticket: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=393781. Feel free to CC 
yourself so you can find out if and when the feature gets implemented!

I'm not aware of a ticket tracking the request to allow screens to be 
visually merged for the purpose of maximization, though. This seems 
risky to me, and less likely to get implemented, because logically it 
would really only work with adjacent screens that share the same width 
or height; with all other screen arrangements (which is to say, probably 
most of them), maximizing a window across screens could result in window 
content being cut off.

That's just my off-the-cuff impression though; the people to make a 
decision here would be the KWin developers, and even then, only if they 
get a Bugzilla ticket requesting it. :)

Nate



On 3/10/25 9:10 AM, Django Reinhard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been an avid kde user for many years and I love the way multiple
> monitors can be managed in the settings.
> 
> What I am missing is an option to visually merge the monitors.
> 
> On the one hand I would like to have a single background image and on the
> other hand I miss the possibility to maximize a window across all screens.
> I heavily use the virtual workspaces and my windows usually have their fixed
> position and size. Mostly I want to maximize windows in one direction.
> That's why I changed the double-click on the window bar to maximize
> vertically.
> With the console windows, I often want to maximize them horizontally. This is
> normally done by right-clicking on the maximize button - however, this does
> not work as desired for me.
> I have 3 monitors next to each other in portrait mode and maximizing a window
> only works within one monitor.
> 
> Would it be possible to add an option to visibly merge the monitors?
> Each monitor would then only show part of the screen (depending on the display
> settings)
> 
> 
>