Re: Set different wallpaper for each virtual desktop

Frank McCormick <[email protected]> Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:53:43 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.icewm.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 01/02/12 04:33 PM, Jonathan Hooverman wrote:
> Hello,
>
> unfortunately I do not have a solution for your request. But here you will find lots of useful information about setting up icewm:
>
> celettu.wordpress.com/icewm-guide/
>
> Jon.
>
> Sent from my mobile device, please excuse for typos
>
> Am 31.01.2012 um 22:00 schrieb Pascal Bernhard - SCI<[email protected]>:
>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> being a pretty new and certainly inexperienced user of IceWM, I have a question regarding the wallpaper settings. Is it possible to have a different desktop background
>>(or wallpaper if you prefer) for each of the virtual desktops on my machine(I have six).
>>I have come to appreciate this feature from other desktop environments and window managers like GNOME, KDE or Enlightenment.
>>So I was wondering whether this was possible with IceWM too. I couldn't find an answer in the FAQ and IceWM's website seems to be mostly down,
>>at least I could not get to a forum to ask my question there.




    Be forewarned...that's a pretty old guide. Some of the advice is 
relevant but some is outdated, such as the recommendation to run
icewmbg. There is no need to anymore as icewm-session runs it automatically.

By the way I don't ***think*** it's possible to do what you want with icewm.


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Cheers
Frank

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