How do I get per desktop wallpaper?

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Sun Apr 5 09:25:13 UTC 2009


On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Anne Wilson <annew at kde.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 04 April 2009 23:00:12 Michael Hennebry wrote:
>> I'm running KDE and Fedora 9.
>> When running Fedora 8, I had a different wallpaper for each desktop.
>> With Fedora 9, I haven't figured out how to do that.
>> Everything I can find to change the desktop background
>> changes it for all the desktops.
>> What is the incantation to change them one at a time?
>>
> You can't.  However, if you use Activities instead of Desktops, you can.  You
> might like to look at http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma sections 2.15 and 2.16.
> Using the Activity Bar for switching, as this describes makes Activities as
> convenient as Desktops.
>
> The good side is that widgets are added per Activity - you get just the ones
> that you have selected as relevant to that class of activity.  The less good
> side is that the panel still shows all your open applications, whichever
> Activity they are being used under.
>
> Anne


Any idea if the old per desktop wallpaper feature is ever coming back?


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