Re: Desktop background

[Joachim Trinkwitz <jtr uni-bonn de>]

Chris Weicht <weicht@itgs-presearch.com> writes:

> Toralf Lund wrote:
> 
> > Is it just me, or is there really no way to set up different backgrounds
> > for different virtual desktops? (When using GNOME rather than the window
> > manager to set backgrounds.)
[...]
> I have a utility called "wmakerconf" (don't know where I got it from
> though) that allows you to do that.  When you run it, choose the
> "Appearance" tab and in there you can choose what you want each desktop to
> look like.  Like I said, I don't remember where wmakerconf came from
> though. I'm sure you can find it pretty easily though.

That's just the window manager option Toralf wanted to
avoid. Wmakerconf is the configuration utility belonging to the
WindowMaker (alias wmaker) window manager. Gnome seems indeed to leave
this config option up to the wm, which can or can't do this special
task.

Greetings,
joachim