Separate activity for each desktop in 4.5?

[Basil Chupin]

On 15/08/2010 13:11, Ric Moore wrote:
> 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
>    

Look, I don't use KDE (nor oS) but in those days where I did use both, 
one had to select "Activities" or some such, somewhere in the options, 
before you could have a different wallpaper on each different desktop. 
You probably did this but have forgotten that you did which is why you 
are able to have a different wallpaper for each "Activity" - "activity" 
equalling each desktop you created.

BC

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