Re: howto break up the desktops
On Sunday 06 September 2009 16:23:57 David Baron wrote:
> On Sunday 06 September 2009 13:30:21 Modestas Vainius wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On sekmadienis 06 Rugsėjis 2009 11:16:13 BasaBuru wrote:
> > >I'm trying to separate the desktops at have 4 desktops and each with one
> > >wallpaper diferent and plasmoids diferents.
> > >
> > >Is posible put any plasmoid in one desktop and oder plasmoids in
> > > diferent desktop? same with wallpapers
> > >
> > > Do you now how to make this??
> >
> > Available since KDE 4.2 (GUI to set the setting appeared in 4.3). So in
> > 4.3:
> >
> > * Click on the plasma-desktop cashew (top-right corner).
> > * Zoom out.
> > * Click "Configure Plasma".
> > * Check "Different activity for each desktop", click OK.
> > * Zoom in.
> >
> > You are done.
>
> Way cool! Brings me back to windows-95 and desktop-plus in one of its later
> incarnations :-) Based on hooks and hacks, this did not make it to later
> windows versions but was fun while it lasted.
>
> So I tried this here. Zooming back in may or may not be evident or appear
> in the right place while playing with this. Thought I lost my first
> desktop but somehow got it back.
>
> OK, the UI could be improved. Setting wallpaper images takes too many steps
> and the caching of the images is not so stable (as I said, the extra step
> should not be needed at all).
>
> Now: I want to copy some icons and move some icons to another desktop. HOW?
>
Meanwhile, with much effort and embarassment, I have set things back to one
desktop background/icons for all. This is very promising but also very flakey
and the zooming and what becomes the factual desktop1,2,3... is very unstable
and unreliable.
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