[kde-linux] Re: Individual Desktop Settings

[Duncan]

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.

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