Re: Workspace specific backgrounds

[Mike Bond <mike bond template com>]

Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 07:47:08AM -0500 or thereabouts, John Kodis wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 28, 1999 at 01:17:44AM -0600, Paul E. Johnson wrote:
> >
> > > One thing I want is workspace-specific backgrounds.  In E or
> > > WindowMaker, this is built in. Not in Sawmill, and if you look at the
> > > way Gnome is designed, it seems that Gnome really ought to take care of
> > > this.
> >
> > Same here.  Sawmill rocks, but I'd like to have multiple workspace
> > backgrouds.  Also, I'd like them to be *dynamic* -- an xearth
> > workspace, an xphoon workspace, an xplanet workspace, and so on, all
> > of which update periodically to stay in sync with the universe.
> 
> This could more profitably be asked on the wm-users list, perhaps,
> but oh well. I haven't been able to find out how to make windowmaker
> do different backgrounds or themes for different workspaces. How is
> this done? I'd love to be able to do that that.
> 
> And will gnome-terminal still do the right thing if I am switching
> transparent gnome-terminals between workspaces with different
> backgrounds? Or will it keep the colour from the original background
> it was opened on? (Strange question, I know, but if I alter the
> background colour, I have to jiggle gnome-terms about for them
> to notice.)
> 
> If it's somewhere blindingly obvious in the windowmaker documentation,
> apologies in advance. But I didn't find it. I did look. Honest :)
> 

Actually, I think the original question might have been that while E and
WM support separate selection of backgrounds per workspace, would it be
possible to more generically support this in the Background capplet in
the GNOME Control Center. This is, after all, supposed to be the place
to configure backgrounds in GNOME.

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