On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 02:46:20PM -0800, Joseph Green wrote: > Hello, > > My second question is, would it be possible to put a different > background image into each workspace? if so, how do I go about doing this? > In Gnome it's currently not possible to do this. KDE will allow you to assign a different background per desktop, but not Gnome. I like this feature, but not enough to switch to KDE. I mostly just use <Ctrl> <Alt> <arrow key> to switch desktops, and remember what applications I put where. Hopefully someone more knowledgable will answer your first question. I've just started experimenting with assigning hot keys to window manager functions myself.