[kde-linux] Re: Individual Desktop Settings

[Wolfgang Mueller]

On 04/15/11 15:45, Duncan wrote:
> Wolfgang Mueller posted on Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:51:41 +0200 as excerpted:
>
>> If I select a new desktop setting, i.e. a different background color or
>> wallpaper, the all virtual desktops are affected.
>>
>> Is it possible to make a different choice for each virtual desktop, and
>> if so, how is that done?
> In kcontrol (wrongly aka system settings), workspace appearance and
> behavior, workspace behavior, there's an applet virtual desktops.  This
> applet has two tabs.  On the default, desktops tab, there's a layout
> section, with a checkbox entitled "Different widgets for each
> desktop"  (This is the kde 4.5+ location.  4.4 and earlier have a
> different kcontrol layout.)
>
> Checking that and hitting apply should do the trick.
>
> That will give you a different activity for each virtual desktop, locking
> the two concepts, activities and virtual desktops, together.  Not only the
> wallpaper and/or background color will be affected, but also any other
> widgets (plasmoids) you place on the activity, so you'll get different
> plasmoids for each activity/desktop as well.  Further, you can switch the
> activity layout for each, perhaps choosing search and launch for desktop
> 1, while sticking with either desktop or folderview layouts for the
> others, for instance.

Thanks a lot, Duncan!

I followed your advises, and it worked immediately. Now,
I have a different background on each virtual desktop.

Bye,
Wolfgang