Re: Multiple backgrounds

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On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:39:31 +0200
Duncan Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Davide Vercelli wrote:
> 
> >>you can have a different background for
> >>each workspace.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Of course you can! It's one of the main reasons I'm using wmaker :)
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Once you have multiple backgrounds, is there any way of turning them off
> >>without manually editing the file?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Killing wmsetbg?
> >  
> >
> OK, now I think we're getting somewhere. What I was thinking about was 
> getting the "WorkspaceSpecificBack" directive to disappear, but perhaps 
> it would be easier to use "wmsetbg -w n" in a loop, or something like that.

i would investigate how to use wdread and wdwrite those are very usefull tools
for editing proplist files, while windowmaker is running

> 
> The type of thing I am talking about about is this:
> 
> Assume that you have selected a common theme with only one background. 
> This will be set according to the global "WorkspaceBack" directive. 
> Then, suppose you set up multiple backgrounds. Fine. Then, if you try to 
> reinstate a single global background with a theme, for example, only the 
> previously unassigned backgrounds change to the theme background. It 
> seems that once "WorkspaceSpecificBack" is in your defaults file, it 
> sticks there until it gets manually removed,
> or am I missing something obvious?
> 
> cheers
> Duncan
> 
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