On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 10:53 -0400, William Case wrote: > Hi; > > Just a thought. I would like to setup my workspace switcher so that > when I switch work spaces it will show different wallpaper on my > desktop. Also, if possible, I would like to attach my launcher icons on > my desktop (not on the panels) to a specific workspace so that when I > switch work spaces a new set of launchers appropriate to that work space > are shown. > > I guess my questions are: > > Is this difficult to accomplish ? > > Is it something I can do by writing some simple code for a file; which > file ? > > AFAIK, under GNOME, only wallpapoz (which is a part of Fedora-proper) is capable of assigning a different wallpaper to a difference workspace. On the other hand, KDE has a built-in wallpaper-per-workspace capability. However, A. Neither of which can assign different panels/desktop icons per workspace. B. KDE's kwin window manager is better suited to automatically managing applications across workspaces. - Gilboa
