Separate activity for each desktop in 4.5?

Reinhold Rumberger rrumberger at web.de
Sat Aug 14 17:03:45 UTC 2010


On Saturday 14 August 2010, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday, August 14, 2010 12:36:25 pm Reinhold Rumberger did 
opine:
> > On Saturday 14 August 2010, Josh Stephenson wrote:
> > > In earlier versions of kde 4 (I can't remember when it started
> > > it was probably 4.3)  you could check a box in the activity
> > > settings to associate a separate activity for each
> > > desktop/workspace. This would allow you to have a separate
> > > wallpaper for each desktop.
> > > 
> > > In 4.5, with the introduction of the activity manager, this
> > > option seems to have been moved or vanished entirely.  I 
> > > can't find a way get more than one wallpaper for all of my
> > > workspaces and I can't find a way to merge activities and
> > > workspaces.  I personally don't have a need for both
> > > workspaces and
> > > activities... and while I understand some people do, taking
> > > away the other option seems like a regression.
> > > 
> > > Or maybe I'm just looking in the wrong place.  Does anybody
> > > how to achieve what I want to do in 4.5?
> > 
> > This has been chaged for quite a while now. There was even a
> > thread about it on this list.
> > 
> > Execute "kcmshell4 desktop" and select the checkbox.
> 
> It is checked, but I have been unable to find where I can select
> the background image to use.

Right click on the desktop and select the settings entry (it's the 
last entry here).

  --Reinhold




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