F17 Gnome3 workspace names

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 07:29:05AM -0600, Greg Woods wrote:
> Under F16, I was able to create a file 
> 
> ~/.gconf/apps/metacity/workspace_names/%gconf.xml
> 
> that would allow me to name my workspaces, so they don't show up as
> "Workspace 1", "Workspace 2", etc. After a fresh install of F17, this is
> no longer working although the file is still present. Is there a way to
> name workspaces under Gnome3/F17?

There's the following:

$ gsettings set org.gnome.wm.preferences workspace-names "['name1', 'name2']"

But I'm not sure whether/how those names are used in the interface.

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