# Dual monitor wallpaper. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 30, 2005, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dual-monitor-wallpaper/310575 "2005-06-30T19:13:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RickQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@RickQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickQ)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dual-monitor-wallpaper/310575/1 "2005-06-30T19:13:29Z")
I have just had dual monitors installed at work (and yes, it totally rocks šŸ†’ ) but I am looking for some wallpaper that will cover both monitors. At the moment, the only wallpaper I can find are images which are duplicated on each screen. The monitors are 19ā€ and the resolution is 1280 x 1024 so I need a pretty big image. If anyone can recommend a website where I might be able to find some wallpaper please let me know. ---
**Author:** ![fubbleskag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fubbleskag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fubbleskag)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dual-monitor-wallpaper/310575/2 "2005-06-30T19:18:01Z")
[Hurrican Floyd](http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/rsd/images/Floyd.html) ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2005, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dual-monitor-wallpaper/310575/3 "2005-06-30T20:28:39Z")
[Digital Blasphemy](http://www.digitalblasphemy.com/mpages/2x_1.shtml) has a cool selection of double-wide desktop backgrounds. You have to pay for some of them, though. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Harmonix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonix)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dual-monitor-wallpaper/310575/4 "2005-07-01T00:45:18Z")
Iā€™m fairly certain you can simply splice two images together. Iā€™m not sure since [Ultramon](http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/) does it for me. Ultramon is a multi-monitor management utility. I fully recommend it. ---
**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dual-monitor-wallpaper/310575/5 "2005-07-01T00:46:49Z")
> **[PlasmaDesign - The World's Most Innovative Business Cards](https://www.plasmadesign.co.uk/)** > > PlasmaDesign - The Worlds Most Innovative Business Cards ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dual-monitor-wallpaper/310575/6 "2005-07-01T01:42:28Z")
Iā€™ve only had multiple-monitor setups on Macs. Never even so much as sat in front of a PC with multiple monitors. Does the PC ā€œWallpaperā€ option let you, if you so choose, take a single image and span it across all your screens? That seems to be what youā€™re saying. Can you instead, if you so choose, select a separate image for each screen? Thatā€™s how the Macintosh ā€œDesktop Picturesā€ works. (We can select a folder instead of a file and it will randomly select a pic and rotate them at a designated interval, also). To put a single image up and have it span multiple monitors, I think a Mac user would have to take the desired image and open it in Photoshop or GIMP or GraphicConverter and slice it up into pieces and assign each piece to the appropriate monitor, separately. (Although there might be 3rd party utils that do what youā€™re talking about) ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dual-monitor-wallpaper/310575/7 "2005-07-01T02:26:17Z")
[http://pixelgirlpresents.com/](http://pixelgirlpresents.com/) I love the stuff on this website, and they have a separate category of desktops called ā€œdualā€ for exactly your situation. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dual-monitor-wallpaper/310575/8 "2005-07-01T04:57:33Z")
This is also something that Iā€™m interested in, but are these sites pretty much spyware free? Too many screenshot and theme sites that Iā€™ve gone to have tried to download multiple snoop programs as a ā€œcourtesyā€, and it bugs the hell out of me. ---
**Author:** ![RickQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@RickQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickQ)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dual-monitor-wallpaper/310575/9 "2005-07-01T14:58:10Z")
Thanks for the links. Does anyone know any sites where you can get free wallpaper? All the sites I have found so far require a membership to download the actual wallpaper ā˜¹ ---
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dual-monitor-wallpaper/310575/10 "2005-07-01T15:03:09Z")
> [@RickQ](#): > > Thanks for the links. > > Does anyone know any sites where you can get free wallpaper? All the sites I have found so far require a membership to download the actual wallpaper ā˜¹ Whah? Pixel Girl Presents doesnā€™t require membershipā€¦ either that or Iā€™ve somehow found a weird loophole, because I have over a dozen wallpapers from that site.