Separate activity for each desktop in 4.5?

[Ric Moore]

On Sat, 2010-08-14 at 22:13 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday, August 14, 2010 10:11:53 pm Reinhold Rumberger did opine:
> 
> > 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
> 
> Thank you Reinhold, it works, unforch it sets all 8 screens alike.  I was 
> hoping I could finally separate them & use a different image per screen.

I just did that Gene. Each screen has a separate wall paper. You just
have to do it one screen at a time, in each one. Ric