XPost: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 9/1/2025 7:39 AM, Paul wrote:   
   > On Sun, 8/31/2025 3:01 PM, pinnerite wrote:   
   >> I have a Mint 22.1 system driving two screens.   
   >>   
   >> I was curious whether there was app that would enable dufferent backgrounds   
   to be displayed on the two monitors.   
   >>   
   >> Naturally I addresed my query to Google's AI that provided three solutions:   
   >>   
   >> Nitrogen   
   >> SuperPaper   
   >> Hydrapaper   
   >>   
   >> I couldn't get anywhere with the first two and am struggling with   
   Hydrapaper.   
   >> I cannot get it to select any file, let alone display it.   
   >>   
   >> Does anyone out ther have any experience with these programs?   
   >   
      
   I fired up a LM221 Xfce which uses XWayland, and was able to   
   set different background pictures on the two monitors. That's   
   just using the control panel stuff.   
      
   I then tried Hydrapaper, and ran into a few errors.   
      
   The python module with "flow" in the name, it tries   
   to make a thumbnail, and it makes an obsolete call to   
   ANTIALIAS when the newer argument is LANCZOS. I fixed   
   that, then moved onto the next error. If was failing while   
   evaluating the path.   
      
      hydrapaper -c /home/mint/left.png  /home/mint/right.png   
      
   The program was expecting files in this case, not dirs,   
   and even if you use -r for random, you can't seem to specify   
   two directories in that case.   
      
   I was getting closer at that point, but then it was failing   
   on a GTK call, and my eyes glaze over on those, and   
   experiment ended.   
      
   So if hydrapaper worked, it might have worked in 18.04 or so.   
   It would seem to me, it was a low priority item and the   
   person responsible for building it for the repo, just   
   left it where it was.   
      
      Paul   
      
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