XRandR and the desktop background image

[Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu]

On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 08:29 -0800, Barry Yu wrote:
> how come the applications and icons can keep normal aspect ration but
> not the desktop background image? Am I using the XRandR correctly or
> is there any work around? I inserted a line into the xorg.conf as
> mentioned above and then issued command "xrandr --output VGA --auto
> --output TMDS-1 --auto --right-of VGA".
> Need help 

Use a background image that is the resolution of one of the monitors,
and then change the background setting to "Tiled".  The background gets
tiled across both, and the aspect ratio doesn't get destroyed.

Works for me!

Regards,

Ranbir
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