Comment 165 for bug 1335492

> as i said in comment #88 why using the workarea instead of the whole screen
After some thinking on your proposal, I have to say: Its complicated.
One problem is, that xfdesktop currently has no support for multiple screens. The "screen0" in the name of the *.rc file currently is just hardcoded, whereas the workarea describes the free area among all attached screens. (So the current screen0 actually is a lie)

Just changing the filename to screen res. for most users might be sufficient. However e.g. if you have a laptop with docking station, you might actually want to use two configurations, with and without extra screen, currently resulting in two *.rc files.

Following your proposal, If you name the file like the first screen, than there will be only one file. A solution could be to put the res. of all available screens into the filename ... but that looks like an ugly workaround for me.

IMO much better would be to have one file per screen, named something like "monitor id"."screen resolution".rc
Each of these files could than consist as well background image info, icon size, etc.
However that would be a bigger change. I opened a seperate bug for that: bug #15344 . Will try to work on it when I have time.