On Friday 28 August 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Friday 28 August 2009 07:50:02 Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 28 August 2009 04:22:23 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Thursday 27 August 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > >On Thursday 27 August 2009 20:21:55 Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
> > >> > On Thursday 27 August 2009 17:02:34 Michael Hennebry wrote:
> > >> > > On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA wrote:
> > >> > > > Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different
> > >> > > > workspaces? If yes how?
> > >> > >
> > >> > > Not, I am told, with recent versions of KDE.
> > >> > > Waaaaah.
> > >> >
> > >> > Yes, you can now. I do have. I have Air on Desktop1 and
> > >> > blue-sun-m on Desktop 2. This wasn't available before KDE 4.3
as
> > >> > far as I know.
> > >>
> > >> Hello Anne
> > >> I am running the KDE 4.3 that ships with Fedora 11. I do not see
> > >> how to put different images on different virtual desktops. Any help
> > >> is appreciated.
> > >
> > >Hmm - I just added extra desktops and set wallpapers from the desktop
> > > right- click menu, without a problem. I don't recall having to
> > > change anything else to allow this, but I'll ask around in the
> > > morning in case I've forgotten something.
> > >
> >
Anne
> >
> > Ah, yes, but in kde-4.3, we are still stuck with one wallpaper for all
> > screens. That sucks about a 10-33 tor vacuum IMO.
>
> NO WE ARE NOT! Please!! I asked for a few hours sleep before searching
> for what was needed to enable it. It definitely works on my laptop.
OK - I get testy before breakfast.
I'd forgotten how I did it. You may remember that I said a long time ago
that you could do it in Activities, but not in desktops. Now you combine
the two.
Use the desktop cashew to zoom out > create an Activity for each desktop
that you want - IOW 4 desktops = 4 Activities > Configure each Activity
with the wallpaper you want.
Not usable Anne. I went to the cashew & did the zoom thing, which proceeded
to overlay the screen completely, covering your msg. Then things locked up,
clock stopped, mouse froze, no response to a ctl+alt+bkspc and I had to use
the hdwe reset to reboot.. Now the screen background I did have set is gone,
as is the plasma launcher that was occupying the upper left 1/6th of the
screen. Other stuff seems to run ok if I can find it in the menu's to run
it, but my previous desktop has been quite destroyed.
So how do I restore that transparent program launcher, and my background
picture now so I am at least back to what kde4.1 could do?
Go back to your first Activity and zoom in -
you are back where you started.
Where is this zoom in button, it doesn't exist here, nor does there appear to
be any back out without changing anything facility.
Now go to each desktop, zoom out, set one Activity to use that
desktop,
zoom in. Do this for each desktop. Now you can use your desktops just as
you always did, but each has settings that are independent of each other.
Takes a few minutes to set up, but from then on it's as easy as it always
was.
If only there were zoom buttons for both directions, there doesn't appear to
be a zoom in, only out to ever smaller muti-images, all the same pix until it
crashes. I just repeated it after rebooting, and was trying to locate my
background pix, but the thumbnail viewer would have taken at least 2 hours to
display every pix in the selected directory. Painfully slow, on a quad core
phenom. And I had 2 zoom out buttons, and no zoom in button.
I accidentally found just now that rolling the center wheel of the mouse
seems to exit it, but I still have a plain blue screen background on all 8
screens.
This is plainly NOT usable as a means of configuring the desktop.
I found my picture and applied it, but most screens are still overlaid with
the zoom out stuff, how to I exit that other than rebooting again? I can see
the selected pix on some screens, reduced to 1/4 screen, but there is not a
zoom in button to restore the normal view. Rebooting certainly doesn't seem
to me to be a valid exit method, this after all, isn't a winderz box. :(
Anne
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