Anne Wilson wrote: > On Friday 28 August 2009 10:53:56 Steven P. Ulrick wrote: > >>> On Friday 28 August 2009 07:50:02 Anne Wilson wrote: >>> >>>> On Friday 28 August 2009 04:22:23 Gene Heskett wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Thursday 27 August 2009, Anne Wilson wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Thursday 27 August 2009 20:21:55 Steven P. Ulrick 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. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hello Anne >>>>>>> I am running the KDE 4.3 that ships with Fedora 11. I do not see >>>>>>> how to put different images on different virtual desktops. Any >>>>>>> help is appreciated. >>>>>>> >>>>>> Hmm - I just added extra desktops and set wallpapers from the >>>>>> desktop right- click menu, without a problem. I don't recall >>>>>> having to change anything else to allow this, but I'll ask around >>>>>> in the morning in case I've forgotten something. >>>>>> >>>>>> Anne >>>>>> >>>>> Ah, yes, but in kde-4.3, we are still stuck with one wallpaper for >>>>> all screens. That sucks about a 10-33 tor vacuum IMO. >>>>> >>>> NO WE ARE NOT! Please!! I asked for a few hours sleep before searching >>>> for what was needed to enable it. It definitely works on my laptop. >>>> >>> OK - I get testy before breakfast. >>> >>> 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. >>> >> Well, now I have a new problem. I have three desktops that each have a >> different image on the background. This is good. My fourth desktop also >> has a different image on it (again, this is good), BUT all the plasmoids >> have dissappeared from it! >> >> Actually, it is more like this: >> Desktop 1: All the plasmoids have dissappeared. >> >> Desktop 2: All the plasmoids remain on the desktop, but in different >> positions and different sizes. >> >> Desktop 3: one of the plasmoids has actually become the size of the entire >> desktop (with no way to resize it) and the other plasmoids are still there, >> and can be resized and moved around just like a "normal" plasmoid. >> >> Desktop 4: Same as Desktop 2 >> >> OK, I just discovered that one of the desktops had been changed to "Folder >> View" (That would have been Desktop 3) So, after changing that back to >> "Desktop View", Desktops 2, 3 & 4 now have all the original plasmoids. >> Unfortunately, like mentioned above, they were randomly rearranged, and I >> will also have to resize them. >> >> Desktop 1 still is nothing but a blank image. All the plasmoids had >> dissappeared. >> >> Anyway, I need to get to work now :) >> >> > They are now Activities, not simple Desktops. Before, plasmoids were on all > desktops, but if you want your desktops for different purposes you probably > neither need nor want all on every desktop. Activities are independent. On > each desktop place the plasmoids that fit the kind of work you do on that > desktop. :-) > > I suppose that at one time or another I will achieve what I am after. Yet, to have learn all this "activities" / "plasmoid" / "activities" stuff seems to be much more complicated than it needs to be.... Just seem like a whole lot of crap to me.... (Full disclosure....I have had too many G&T's tonight).... But, if it takes me multiple steps and non-intuitive logic to reach my goal then I consider it a FAIL.... Ed -- Man's reach must exceed his grasp, for why else the heavens? Mei-Mei.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=cCSz_koUhSg
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