Looking for a Plasma Workaround

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 07 November 2008 23:51:46 Wilson, Richard E wrote:
> One feature that hasn't been carried forward from KDE3 to 4 is the
> ability to have different backgrounds for different desktops, which
> would be a big benefit to me and from reading posts to this lists,
> others as well.
>
> I was wondering if anyone could provide pointers to slave a call to
> programmatically change the desktop background when a desktop button is
> selected.  I think Plasma is a great improvement and would really like
> to upgrade my main workstation to KDE 4, but this lack has so far held
> me back.
>
> I am using Fedora 9 running KDE 4.1.2-5
>
While that functionality is not yet available, there is an alternative.  Try 
adding an activity as your second desktop.  If you don't know how to do that, 
ask.  Each activity can have its own desktop background.

Anne
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