{"id":9118,"date":"2019-07-01T16:43:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T16:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=9118"},"modified":"2019-07-01T16:43:01","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T16:43:01","slug":"hydrapaper-different-wallpaper-each-monitor-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2019\/07\/hydrapaper-different-wallpaper-each-monitor-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"HydraPaper – Set Different Wallpaper for Each Monitor in Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For Ubuntu 18.04 and higher users with multiple monitors, Hydrapaper<\/a> is a GTK utility allows to set different background wallpaper for each monitor in Gnome 3<\/b>, MATE<\/b>, or Budgie<\/b> desktop.<\/p>\n

The utility uses Pillow to create a single image merging all of your chosen wallpapers and setting it as your wallpaper with the “Spanned” option.<\/p>\n

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Hydrapaper can be installed in Ubuntu 18.04 and higher via Flatpak (Containerized software package). Open terminal either from application menu or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b>. When it opens, do:<\/p>\n

1.<\/b> Run command to install Flatpak deamon first:<\/p>\n

sudo apt-get install flatpak<\/pre>\n
Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n
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2.<\/b> Then add Flathub repository via command:<\/p>\n
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https:\/\/flathub.org\/repo\/flathub.flatpakrepo<\/pre>\n
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3.<\/b> Finally install the utility via command:<\/p>\n
flatpak install flathub org.gabmus.hydrapaper<\/pre>\n
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Like normal software package, open Hydrapaper from application menu once successfully installed on your system.<\/p>\n
To uninstall<\/b> the utility, run command in terminal:<\/p>\n
flatpak uninstall org.gabmus.hydrapaper<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For Ubuntu 18.04 and higher users with multiple monitors, Hydrapaper is a GTK utility allows to set different background wallpaper for each monitor in Gnome 3, MATE, or Budgie desktop. The utility uses Pillow to create a single image merging all of your chosen wallpapers and setting it as your wallpaper with the “Spanned” option. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1749],"class_list":["post-9118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-different-wallpaper-multi-monitor"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}