Re: desktop differentiated icons

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On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Rick Stevens wrote:

> On 01/20/2010 09:34 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>> On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>>
>>> I often have a lot of open windows,
>>> mostly xterms and gvims.
>>> When I have seventeen of them in the bottom bar,
>>> it would be nice if they were color-coded or something by desktop.
>>> Is there a way to do that?
>>> I can color-code the desktop backgrounds themselves.
>>> I'm running KDE and FC11.
>>
>> Does the lack of response mean that no one knows how?
>
> Under Gnome with multiple desktops, the taskbar icons for open terminals
> show up only when I select the desktop containing the terminals.

Alas, KDE is not so discriminating.
I get them all.

Step forward KDE fans.
Do I need to go to Gnome for this?


Is there a way for an application to discover which desktop it's on?

> For example, desktop 4 has six open gterms, desktop 2 has none.  If I
> select desktop 4, the bottom bar shows six gterm icons (plus an icon
> for each app running on that desktop such as gkrellm).  If I select
> desktop 2, I see no gterm icons but icons for Firefox and Thunderbird
> (the apps running on that desktop).

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