hydrapaper

Utility that sets background independently for each monitor
  https://gitlab.com/gabmus/HydraPaper
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HydraPaper is a GTK-based utility that sets background images for multiple monitor desktops independently.

It works by merging multiple wallpaper images into one and setting the result as wallpaper with the "Spanned" option.

It is based on the GNOME 3 Desktop but officially supports MATE and Budgie as well, and should work on any GNOME-based desktop like Pantheon.
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old-dog 10 months ago

The statement about how it works is totally confusing to me, but I found that if I started the program, it would list my monitors, and then below that, (with Wallpapers selected), it would show the jpeg images in my Pictures Folder. I could then click on one of the monitors, double click on an image, then click on the three dots showing on that monitor image, and choose how I wanted the wallpaper to be displayed (zoom, fit, center, etc), then click on the green Apply button TWICE. The second time would bring up a choice of desktop or locked screen. Choosing desktop assigns that image to that monitor. I then proceeded to the next monitor and repeated the process.. then quit. Took me a bit to make my three monitors display the three backgrounds (wallpapers) I wanted but when it did I found it worth the effort. One thing to remember is that if you have an image you want to use, it MUST be saved as .jpg in your Pictures directory!