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Background: Support different images on different displays and independent random selection #548

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@autumn3043

Add a configuration rule that allows the user to specify how wf-background should be applied across multiple displays, if available.

Ideally, I'd like to be able to specify all existing configuration values on a per-display basis. Displays could be addressed in the order they are identified by the compositor (i.e., display 0, 1, etc.) or by wlr-randr output identifier if feasible. In my particular case, I'd like to be able to set both displays to select randomly from a given directory, and have that random selection be independent per monitor. If nothing else, additional displays could show the image at the randomly selected index + display number, so that images would be different if not entirely random.

Until recently, this was a feature of the software. (Specifically, when enabling random image selection, selection would be independent between multiple displays.) It has disappeared since I underwent the general upgrade of Wayfire and associated apps from 0.10 -> 0.11, so I suspect this may have been an unintentional functionality in the first place, or a consequence of upstream changes at GTK4/gtk shell layer.

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