Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

Jatin K ssh.fedora at gmail.com
Fri Aug 28 08:02:37 UTC 2009


On 08/28/2009 12:52 PM, Fennix wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Anne Wilson <annew at kde.org 
> <mailto:annew at kde.org>> wrote:
>
>     On Thursday 27 August 2009 17:02:34 Michael Hennebry wrote:
>     > On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA wrote:
>     > > Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different
>     workspaces? If
>     > > yes how?
>     >
>     > Not, I am told, with recent versions of KDE.
>     > Waaaaah.
>
>     Yes, you can now.  I do have.  I have Air on Desktop1 and
>     blue-sun-m on
>     Desktop 2.  This wasn't available before KDE 4.3 as far as I know.
>
>     Anne
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> Hi Anne
> How to do this?  If I right-click on the desktop and select "Desktop 
> Settings" it appears that I can only choose one image for all 
> desktops.  This functionality of having an image for each desktop from 
> KDE 3.x is the only thing that I (really!!!) miss in KDE 4.x.  I 
> really do think that KDE 4 is now much superiour to KDE 3 excepting 
> the (perhaps minor issue for the KDE devs) of having multiple desktop 
> images to match the prefered use/purpose for that desktop.  No other 
> element in KDE 4 makes me wish to regress back to the previous system 
> (except the use of "kyum" which upon installation pulls in many 
> elements from KDE 3...)
> Has kyum been ported to KDE 4?  How to enable selecting an image for 
> each desktop configured?
> /fennix
> PS:  I think that it would be better stated that there are 2 issues 
> for me:  (1) Enabling selecting a "unique" image for each of my 
> desktops.  (2)  Installing kyum for upgrading my current Fedora 
> installation without pulling in many elements/libraries of KDE3 to 
> support this application.
> I know that I should post this to the KDE.org/brainstorm link you had 
> posted previously...but I feel that if this is a majour issue then 
> many must have already complained before now so if no-one has said 
> much then these are not majour issues to the general KDE community... 
>  (Running KDE 4.3.00 currently...)
> /fennix
I'm using *wallpopz* it works fine for me .... I've gnome with 6 desktop 
with different wallpaper on each desktop





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