Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

Bruce Korb bkorb at gnu.org
Sun Sep 6 18:50:36 UTC 2009


> I'd forgotten how I did it.  You may remember that I said a long time ago that 
> you could do it in Activities, but not in desktops.  Now you combine the two.
> 
> Use the desktop cashew to zoom out > create an Activity for each desktop that 
> you want - IOW 4 desktops = 4 Activities >  Configure each Activity with the 
> wallpaper you want.  Go back to your first Activity and zoom in - you are back 
> where you started.
> 
> Now go to each desktop, zoom out, set one Activity to use that desktop, zoom 
> in.  Do this for each desktop.  Now you can use your desktops just as you 
> always did, but each has settings that are independent of each other.
> 
> Takes a few minutes to set up, but from then on it's as easy as it always was.

Hi Anne,

Surely you have to be kidding about the "it's as easy as it always was" comment.
This is not easy.  Especially when you use phrases like, "Use the desktop cashew".
WTF is that?  (OK - I get testy before lunch time...;)  Would you please be
kind enough to explain the steps to someone who doesn't know a desktop cashew from
a KDE activity?  Thank you so much.  Regards, Bruce




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