Separate activity for each desktop in 4.5?

[Ric Moore]

On Sun, 2010-08-15 at 17:20 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
> 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.

I dunno, the method I tried works. It ain't like it used to be or Gene
would have had it. :) Ric