Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-11-11 Thread Michael Hennebry

On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:


On Friday 28 August 2009 16:22:33 Gene Heskett wrote:

If only there were zoom buttons for both directions, there doesn't appear
to be a zoom in, only out to ever smaller muti-images, all the same pix
until it crashes.


Use the Magnifying glass with a + on it.


Is there a reason for that rather nasty asymmetry?
After nuking my old .kde folder,
I was re-establishing multiple desktop backgrounds.
Not remembering said magnifier, I eventually tried logging out.
Zoom in should not have been hiding.
Zoom out, if either, should have been the inconspicous one.
I couldn't log in again.
It hung.
I started typing keys until I caused a reboot.
On logging in again, I discovered that I could
have different backgrounds for diffent desktops.
Not all are labeled correctly.
The only one I delberately changed is a single color.
The others are blue, but the desktop settings menus
claim that they are pictures of Leonidas.

Also, is there a way to get the desktop icons
to reflect to background of the dekstops?

What about the application icons?
Is there a way to get them to indicate the desktop to which they belong?


Also, I sent another post with an easier way, but it never seems to have made
it to the list (the same info did, in another list).  What it said was:

Quicker way - and, I think, the way that I did it:

http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/FAQ/4.3#How_can_I_use_virtual_desktops_as_activities_.3F


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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-09-17 Thread Michael Hennebry

On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Bruce Korb wrote:


On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Michael Hennebry

Since I installed F11,
rather a lot of labels are black on dark gray or black on black.
'Tis quite annoying.


That's controlled by the theme and many need compositing on to avoid this.
Experiment with themes until you get one that's better for you if you
can't use Desktop Effects.


I tried to play with themes,
but could not find anything in the gui that even hinted at my problem.

A friend of mine solved the problem.
I had installed F11 and kept a home directory from F9.
There have been syntax changes for data in the .kde directory.
The new KDE was angry and taking it out on my labels.


I'd just like a very simple recipe: do this, then this, then this.
I really, _really_, *REALLY* do not want to have to go through
the learning curve of figuring out how to fiddle desktop effects
to do something that is very common and ought to be so easy.
It used to be easy.  'Tis quite *beyond* just annoying.

If anyone has such a recipe, *please* just post it.  Thank you so much.


Does that mean you have the same problem after an install?
Get rid of your ~/.kde directory and log in again.

If you are refering to desktop backgrounds,
I still don't know what I did to get them.
It should have been easy.

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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-09-17 Thread Michael Hennebry

On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote:


Is there an nvidia driver that allows suspend to
disk and does not experience extreme slowness?


More precisely, is there an nvidia driver
that does not experience extreme slowness?

I've had trouble getting flash to play right
either through firefox or through mplayer.
Most recently mplayer told me that my system was to slow.
It made suggestions that were scrolled
off the screen by many cpoies of

AO: [pulse] pa_stream_get_latency() failed: Connection terminated
AO: [pulse] pa_stream_write() failed: Connection terminated.4% 1312 0


I'm running a recent install of F11 on a 3 GHz
pentium 4 with hyperthreading, 4G of memory
and F11's video driver.
So far, it has not made me happy.
[henne...@localhost Cache]$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11.i686.PAE #1 SMP Mon Aug 24 
17:16:21 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[henne...@localhost Cache]$
The GEForce nvidia card and the 4G of memory are
not original equipment, but they predate F11.

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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-09-16 Thread Michael Hennebry

On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:


On Sunday 30 August 2009 17:43:22 Michael Hennebry wrote:

Since I installed F11,
rather a lot of labels are black on dark gray or black on black.
'Tis quite annoying.


That's controlled by the theme and many need compositing on to avoid this.
Experiment with themes until you get one that's better for you if you can't
use Desktop Effects.


I tried to play with themes,
but could not find anything in the gui that even hinted at my problem.

A friend of mine solved the problem.
I had installed F11 and kept a home directory from F9.
There have been syntax changes for data in the .kde directory.
The new KDE was angry and taking it out on my labels.

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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-09-16 Thread Bruce Korb
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Michael Hennebry
 Since I installed F11,
 rather a lot of labels are black on dark gray or black on black.
 'Tis quite annoying.

 That's controlled by the theme and many need compositing on to avoid this.
 Experiment with themes until you get one that's better for you if you
 can't use Desktop Effects.

 I tried to play with themes,
 but could not find anything in the gui that even hinted at my problem.

 A friend of mine solved the problem.
 I had installed F11 and kept a home directory from F9.
 There have been syntax changes for data in the .kde directory.
 The new KDE was angry and taking it out on my labels.

I'd just like a very simple recipe: do this, then this, then this.
I really, _really_, *REALLY* do not want to have to go through
the learning curve of figuring out how to fiddle desktop effects
to do something that is very common and ought to be so easy.
It used to be easy.  'Tis quite *beyond* just annoying.

If anyone has such a recipe, *please* just post it.  Thank you so much.

Regards, Bruce

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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-09-06 Thread Bruce Korb
 I'd forgotten how I did it.  You may remember that I said a long time ago 
 that 
 you could do it in Activities, but not in desktops.  Now you combine the two.
 
 Use the desktop cashew to zoom out  create an Activity for each desktop that 
 you want - IOW 4 desktops = 4 Activities   Configure each Activity with the 
 wallpaper you want.  Go back to your first Activity and zoom in - you are 
 back 
 where you started.
 
 Now go to each desktop, zoom out, set one Activity to use that desktop, zoom 
 in.  Do this for each desktop.  Now you can use your desktops just as you 
 always did, but each has settings that are independent of each other.
 
 Takes a few minutes to set up, but from then on it's as easy as it always was.

Hi Anne,

Surely you have to be kidding about the it's as easy as it always was comment.
This is not easy.  Especially when you use phrases like, Use the desktop 
cashew.
WTF is that?  (OK - I get testy before lunch time...;)  Would you please be
kind enough to explain the steps to someone who doesn't know a desktop cashew 
from
a KDE activity?  Thank you so much.  Regards, Bruce

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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-09-06 Thread Fennix
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Bruce Korb bk...@gnu.org wrote:

  I'd forgotten how I did it.  You may remember that I said a long time ago
 that
  you could do it in Activities, but not in desktops.  Now you combine the
 two.
 
  Use the desktop cashew to zoom out  create an Activity for each desktop
 that
  you want - IOW 4 desktops = 4 Activities   Configure each Activity with
 the
  wallpaper you want.  Go back to your first Activity and zoom in - you are
 back
  where you started.
 
  Now go to each desktop, zoom out, set one Activity to use that desktop,
 zoom
  in.  Do this for each desktop.  Now you can use your desktops just as you
  always did, but each has settings that are independent of each other.
 
  Takes a few minutes to set up, but from then on it's as easy as it always
 was.

 Hi Anne,

 Surely you have to be kidding about the it's as easy as it always was
 comment.
 This is not easy.  Especially when you use phrases like, Use the desktop
 cashew.
 WTF is that?  (OK - I get testy before lunch time...;)  Would you please be
 kind enough to explain the steps to someone who doesn't know a desktop
 cashew from
 a KDE activity?  Thank you so much.  Regards, Bruce

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Desktop icon in the upper (status?) bar?  There is one in the top-right
corner and another on the bottom-right corner of your KDE screen.  The shape
of the icon is the same as that for a cashew nut.  Not sure whether the
behaviours of each is different.  The upper-corner cashew I am fairly
certain should open with options to govern the general desktop behaviour.
 The lower-right cashew I think should be for the behaviour of your your
task bar across the bottom of the screen.

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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-09-06 Thread Bruce Korb
Fennix wrote:
 
 
 On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Bruce Korb bk...@gnu.org
 mailto:bk...@gnu.org wrote:
 
  I'd forgotten how I did it.  You may remember that I said a long
  time ago that you could do it in Activities, but not in desktops.
  Now you combine the two.
 
  Use the desktop cashew to zoom out  create an Activity for each
  desktop that you want - IOW 4 desktops = 4 Activities
  Configure each Activity with the wallpaper you want.
  Go back to your first Activity and zoom in -
  you are back where you started.
 
  Now go to each desktop, zoom out, set one Activity to use that
  desktop, zoom in.  Do this for each desktop.  Now you can use
  your desktops just as you always did, but each has settings
  that are independent of each other.
 
  Takes a few minutes to set up, but from then on it's as easy as it
  always was.
 
 Hi Anne,
 
 Surely you have to be kidding about the it's as easy as it always
 was comment.  This is not easy.  Especially when you use phrases
 like, Use the desktop cashew.  WTF is that?  (OK - I get testy
 before lunch time...;)  Would you please be kind enough to explain
 the steps to someone who doesn't know a desktop cashew from
 a KDE activity?  Thank you so much.  Regards, Bruce
 
 Desktop icon in the upper (status?) bar?  There is one in the top-right
 corner and another on the bottom-right corner of your KDE screen.  The
 shape of the icon is the same as that for a cashew nut.  Not sure
 whether the behaviours of each is different.  The upper-corner cashew
 I am fairly certain should open with options to govern the general
 desktop behaviour.  The lower-right cashew I think should be for the
 behaviour of your your task bar across the bottom of the screen.

Found them both, thank you.  I never saw the lower right one and the upper
right one I didn't recognize as a desktop cashew.  :)  Still, after
zooming out I never did find any create an activity menu or plasma
configurator for that matter.  I think there are a lot of developers
that are completely uninterested in wading through all the minutia needed
to figure this stuff out.  We basically want to be able to readily see
from our wall paper which room (desktop) we're in.  It used to be easy.
It sure ain't easy any more.

Thank you for your help!!  But, I'm still stuck with one wall paper for
12 desk tops.  Regards, Bruce

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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-09-06 Thread rgheck

On 09/06/2009 04:15 PM, Bruce Korb wrote:
Thank you for your help!! But, I'm still stuck with one wall paper for 
12 desk tops.


The new behavior is only available in KDE 4.3.x, if I'm not mistaken, so 
first check if you have that. If so, then click on the desktop cashew, 
which you've now found, and zoom out. You should get a menu somewhere, 
after the zoom out occurs. In my case, it's upper left and has five 
options: Lock Widgets, Shortcut Settings, Add Activity, Zoom Out, and 
Configure Plasma. Choose Configure Plasma. This gives you two options: 
Different Activity... and Use a separate dashboard. Click the first 
one, hit OK. You should now have the ability to set different wallpapers 
for each of your desktop. I recommend that you log out and log back in 
first.


Richard

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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-09-06 Thread Bruce Korb
KDE 4.1.3 release 8.13  Since it was a fresh download of a fairly recent
distribution and there was no readily apparent desktop about,
I was making incorrect assumption.  Looks like I'll be anxiously awaiting
the next distro with a KDE 4.3.x.  Sorry for the bother.  I wish the
right-click-on-desktop had an about selection
Thank you.  Regards, Bruce

(P.S. I got the KDE version from Konqueror)

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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-09-06 Thread Steven F. LeBrun

On 09/06/2009 05:06 PM, Bruce Korb wrote:

KDE 4.1.3 release 8.13  Since it was a fresh download of a fairly recent
distribution and there was no readily apparent desktop about,
I was making incorrect assumption.  Looks like I'll be anxiously awaiting
the next distro with a KDE 4.3.x.  Sorry for the bother.  I wish the
right-click-on-desktop had an about selection
Thank you.  Regards, Bruce

(P.S. I got the KDE version from Konqueror)

   


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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-30 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 14:03 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: 
 I can also comment on this mail server, there are times when my posts either 
 disappear outright, or are any where up to 36 hours coming back.  I can post 
 to lkml and it comes back in 90 seconds maximum, the period of fetchmails 
 scan set here.  This server either needs more iron, or is at best, miss-
 configured.

Probably affected by grey listing...

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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 30 August 2009 01:09:35 Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
 If you select Zoom Out from one of your NEW activities, your original
 desktop is NOT included amongst the desktops that are accessible from your
 pager. If you choose this option, your original desktop is NOT deleted.  It
 just is not displayed in your pager.  In fact, you can keep your new
 activities, and go back to using your old desktop if you choose, with no
 fear of losing your new activities...

When you zoom out your Desktop 1 may not be visible.  You should be able to 
drag the screen about, to see all the desktops you have, which makes it easy 
to get back to your original desktop.

Even better - look at  
http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/FAQ#How_can_I_quickly_move_between_Activities.3F 
and follow the link to the how-to.  This sets up a new panel, which can be 
short if you wish, and places to autohide, with one-click switching between 
Activities.  I use this on my netbook, where space is a premium, and it works 
flawlessly.  It doesn't always autohide at first login, but touch it and it 
does, after which it has no further problem.

Yes, things are not perfect, but they are improving all the time.  Keep an eye 
on Plasma pages in userbase.  Some of the devs are keeping it pretty well up 
to date.

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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 30 August 2009, Tim wrote:
On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 14:03 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
 I can also comment on this mail server, there are times when my posts
 either disappear outright, or are any where up to 36 hours coming back. 
 I can post to lkml and it comes back in 90 seconds maximum, the period of
 fetchmails scan set here.  This server either needs more iron, or is at
 best, miss- configured.

Probably affected by grey listing...

Grey listing?  That would not surprise me, what with all the other things vz 
does.  However the last time, I timed the echo, and it was within the general 
frame of my fetchmail scan loop + the kmail loop.

I have 07:48:00 here now when I hit the send button.

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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-30 Thread Michael Hennebry

On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote:


On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:


Quicker way - and, I think, the way that I did it:

http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/FAQ/4.3#How_can_I_use_virtual_desktops_as_activities_.3F


On second thought, I might do it that way.
Again, thanks much.


Arrrg.  'Twas a mess.
I'm not at all sure how I got out of it.
Clicking on OK did not get rid of the toolbox.
That wasn't the only part of the mess.
I don't know what eventually got rid of it.
I do have different backgrounds on different desktops now.

It's possible I'm missing something.
Since I installed F11,
rather a lot of labels are black on dark gray or black on black.
'Tis quite annoying.


I noticed this from the same page:

I experience extreme slowness when using Plasma with the NVIDIA binary driver.



This is NVIDIA's fault entirely, due to their driver not supporting correctly 
the XRender X11 extension, and it also affects other parts of KDE such as 
Konsole. See this blog entry on how to report issues upstream to NVIDIA. This 
page contains a few suggestions on how to improve performance.


Is there an nvidia driver that allows suspend to
disk and does not experience extreme slowness?

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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-30 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 30 August 2009 17:43:22 Michael Hennebry wrote:
 Since I installed F11,
 rather a lot of labels are black on dark gray or black on black.
 'Tis quite annoying.

That's controlled by the theme and many need compositing on to avoid this.  
Experiment with themes until you get one that's better for you if you can't 
use Desktop Effects.

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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 28 August 2009 20:23:39 Gene Heskett wrote:
 For each desktop, right-click and select Add Widgets.  Add the widgets
 relevant to the activity you intend for that desktop.

 The very terse wording makes it non-intuitive.  And clicking on help gets
 me the advisory that it has not yet been written.

I'm sorry, but I have no idea what it was you wanted help with.

 Remember that your desktops now act independently.  You can have leisure-
 related widgets on a different desktop from your work-related ones.
 
 If that's not what you meant by 'plasmoid launcher', describe a bit more
  what you want.

 What I want is the same, semi transparent launcher to be available on all 8
 screens.   For that, it seems I should be able to edit an rc or conf file
 someplace, and just copy/paste that same stanza in the verses for the other
 7 screens.

I'm no wise with this, either.  What exactly do you mean by semi-transparent 
launcher?  I don't recognise the description.

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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-29 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
 On Friday 28 August 2009 10:53:56 Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
   On Friday 28 August 2009 07:50:02 Anne Wilson wrote:
  Well, now I have a new problem.  I have three desktops that each have a
  different image on the background.  This is good.  My fourth desktop also
  has a different image on it (again, this is good), BUT all the plasmoids
  have disappeared from it!
 
  Actually, it is more like this:
  Desktop 1: All the plasmoids have disappeared.
 
  Desktop 2: All the plasmoids remain on the desktop, but in different
  positions and different sizes.
 
  Desktop 3: one of the plasmoids has actually become the size of the entire
  desktop (with no way to re-size it) and the other plasmoids are still there,
  and can be re-sized and moved around just like a normal plasmoid.
 
  Desktop 4: Same as Desktop 2
 
  OK, I just discovered that one of the desktops had been changed to Folder
  View (That would have been Desktop 3)  So, after changing that back to
  Desktop View, Desktops 2, 3  4 now have all the original plasmoids. 
  Unfortunately, like mentioned above, they were randomly rearranged, and I
  will also have to re-size them.
 
  Desktop 1 still is nothing but a blank image.  All the plasmoids had
  disappeared.
 
  Anyway, I need to get to work now :)
 
 They are now Activities, not simple Desktops.  Before, plasmoids were on all 
 desktops, but if you want your desktops for different purposes you probably 
 neither need nor want all on every desktop.  Activities are independent.  On 
 each desktop place the plasmoids that fit the kind of work you do on that 
 desktop. :-)

Hello Anne :)
You will be gratified to know that after I got home from work, I played around 
a 
little bit with Activities.  After just a few minutes, I feel that I understand 
them very well.  Could they have a better name than Activities?  Probably.  
Are there no issues with the implementation that we now know as Activities?  
No, there are real issues.  But the important thing in my mind is that now I 
understand HOW to use this feature, and I also understand that to compare the 
relative difficulty in using this feature to the real ease of setting different 
background for each desktop in KDE 3.* is to compare apples and oranges...

As I understand it, this is how it works in a test account that I just set up 
on 
my system for this purpose:

1. Click on the little cashew thingy in the upper right hand corner of the 
desktop.
2. Select Zoom out
3. From the menu that now appears in the upper left hand corner, choose 
Configure Plasma
4. On the dialog that comes up, check Different activity for each desktop and 
click OK  Four new Activities were immediately placed on the display.
5. Set Backgrounds, add widgets to taste.  (There seems to be two ways to do 
this.  Also, all I am trying to do now is eliminate SOME of the mystery behind 
Activities...

If you select Zoom Out from the original desktop, your original desktop 
becomes 
one of your new Activities, all accessible from your friendly little pager...

If you select Zoom Out from one of your NEW activities, your original desktop 
is NOT included amongst the desktops that are accessible from your pager.
If you choose this option, your original desktop is NOT deleted.  It just is 
not 
displayed in your pager.  In fact, you can keep your new activities, and go 
back 
to using your old desktop if you choose, with no fear of losing your new 
activities...

But I have NO idea what Use a separate dashboard on the Configure Plasma 
menu 
means...

The cool part to all this (for me anyway,) is that before, you could only have 
different programs open on different desktops.  You always had the same icons.  
With KDE4, you can have completely different plasmoids and icons on as many 
desktops as you can configure.  To accomplish the same thing under KDE 3.*, I 
think you would have had to have different users for different purposes.

Anyway, thank you Anne for informing us of this feature.

Steven P. Ulrick

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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 28 August 2009 04:22:23 Gene Heskett wrote:
 On Thursday 27 August 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
 On Thursday 27 August 2009 20:21:55 Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
   On Thursday 27 August 2009 17:02:34 Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA wrote:
 Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different
 workspaces? If yes how?
   
Not, I am told, with recent versions of KDE.
Wah.
  
   Yes, you can now.  I do have.  I have Air on Desktop1 and blue-sun-m
   on Desktop 2.  This wasn't available before KDE 4.3 as far as I know.
 
  Hello Anne
  I am running the KDE 4.3 that ships with Fedora 11.  I do not see how to
  put different images on different virtual desktops.  Any help is
  appreciated.
 
 Hmm - I just added extra desktops and set wallpapers from the desktop
  right- click menu, without a problem.  I don't recall having to change
  anything else to allow this, but I'll ask around in the morning in case
  I've forgotten something.
 
 Anne

 Ah, yes, but in kde-4.3, we are still stuck with one wallpaper for all
 screens.  That sucks about a 10-33 tor vacuum IMO.

NO WE ARE NOT!  Please!! I asked for a few hours sleep before searching for 
what was needed to enable it.  It definitely works on my laptop.

Anne


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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-28 Thread Fennix
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Anne Wilson an...@kde.org wrote:

 On Thursday 27 August 2009 17:02:34 Michael Hennebry wrote:
  On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA wrote:
   Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces? If
   yes how?
 
  Not, I am told, with recent versions of KDE.
  Wah.

 Yes, you can now.  I do have.  I have Air on Desktop1 and blue-sun-m on
 Desktop 2.  This wasn't available before KDE 4.3 as far as I know.

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Hi Anne
How to do this?  If I right-click on the desktop and select Desktop
Settings it appears that I can only choose one image for all desktops.
 This functionality of having an image for each desktop from KDE 3.x is the
only thing that I (really!!!) miss in KDE 4.x.  I really do think that KDE 4
is now much superiour to KDE 3 excepting the (perhaps minor issue for the
KDE devs) of having multiple desktop images to match the prefered
use/purpose for that desktop.  No other element in KDE 4 makes me wish to
regress back to the previous system (except the use of kyum which upon
installation pulls in many elements from KDE 3...)
Has kyum been ported to KDE 4?  How to enable selecting an image for each
desktop configured?
/fennix
PS:  I think that it would be better stated that there are 2 issues for me:
 (1) Enabling selecting a unique image for each of my desktops.  (2)
 Installing kyum for upgrading my current Fedora installation without
pulling in many elements/libraries of KDE3 to support this application.
I know that I should post this to the KDE.org/brainstorm link you had posted
previously...but I feel that if this is a majour issue then many must have
already complained before now so if no-one has said much then these are not
majour issues to the general KDE community...  (Running KDE 4.3.00
currently...)
/fennix
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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-28 Thread Jatin K

On 08/28/2009 12:52 PM, Fennix wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Anne Wilson an...@kde.org 
mailto:an...@kde.org wrote:


On Thursday 27 August 2009 17:02:34 Michael Hennebry wrote:
 On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA wrote:
  Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different
workspaces? If
  yes how?

 Not, I am told, with recent versions of KDE.
 Wah.

Yes, you can now.  I do have.  I have Air on Desktop1 and
blue-sun-m on
Desktop 2.  This wasn't available before KDE 4.3 as far as I know.

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Hi Anne
How to do this?  If I right-click on the desktop and select Desktop 
Settings it appears that I can only choose one image for all 
desktops.  This functionality of having an image for each desktop from 
KDE 3.x is the only thing that I (really!!!) miss in KDE 4.x.  I 
really do think that KDE 4 is now much superiour to KDE 3 excepting 
the (perhaps minor issue for the KDE devs) of having multiple desktop 
images to match the prefered use/purpose for that desktop.  No other 
element in KDE 4 makes me wish to regress back to the previous system 
(except the use of kyum which upon installation pulls in many 
elements from KDE 3...)
Has kyum been ported to KDE 4?  How to enable selecting an image for 
each desktop configured?

/fennix
PS:  I think that it would be better stated that there are 2 issues 
for me:  (1) Enabling selecting a unique image for each of my 
desktops.  (2)  Installing kyum for upgrading my current Fedora 
installation without pulling in many elements/libraries of KDE3 to 
support this application.
I know that I should post this to the KDE.org/brainstorm link you had 
posted previously...but I feel that if this is a majour issue then 
many must have already complained before now so if no-one has said 
much then these are not majour issues to the general KDE community... 
 (Running KDE 4.3.00 currently...)

/fennix
I'm using *wallpopz* it works fine for me  I've gnome with 6 desktop 
with different wallpaper on each desktop



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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 28 August 2009 07:50:02 Anne Wilson wrote:
 On Friday 28 August 2009 04:22:23 Gene Heskett wrote:
  On Thursday 27 August 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
  On Thursday 27 August 2009 20:21:55 Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
On Thursday 27 August 2009 17:02:34 Michael Hennebry wrote:
 On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA wrote:
  Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different
  workspaces? If yes how?

 Not, I am told, with recent versions of KDE.
 Wah.
   
Yes, you can now.  I do have.  I have Air on Desktop1 and blue-sun-m
on Desktop 2.  This wasn't available before KDE 4.3 as far as I
know.
  
   Hello Anne
   I am running the KDE 4.3 that ships with Fedora 11.  I do not see how
   to put different images on different virtual desktops.  Any help is
   appreciated.
  
  Hmm - I just added extra desktops and set wallpapers from the desktop
   right- click menu, without a problem.  I don't recall having to change
   anything else to allow this, but I'll ask around in the morning in case
   I've forgotten something.
  
  Anne
 
  Ah, yes, but in kde-4.3, we are still stuck with one wallpaper for all
  screens.  That sucks about a 10-33 tor vacuum IMO.

 NO WE ARE NOT!  Please!! I asked for a few hours sleep before searching for
 what was needed to enable it.  It definitely works on my laptop.

OK - I get testy before breakfast.

I'd forgotten how I did it.  You may remember that I said a long time ago that 
you could do it in Activities, but not in desktops.  Now you combine the two.

Use the desktop cashew to zoom out  create an Activity for each desktop that 
you want - IOW 4 desktops = 4 Activities   Configure each Activity with the 
wallpaper you want.  Go back to your first Activity and zoom in - you are back 
where you started.

Now go to each desktop, zoom out, set one Activity to use that desktop, zoom 
in.  Do this for each desktop.  Now you can use your desktops just as you 
always did, but each has settings that are independent of each other.

Takes a few minutes to set up, but from then on it's as easy as it always was.

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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 28 August 2009 08:22:06 Fennix wrote:
 On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Anne Wilson an...@kde.org wrote:
  On Thursday 27 August 2009 17:02:34 Michael Hennebry wrote:
   On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA wrote:
Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces?
If yes how?
  
   Not, I am told, with recent versions of KDE.
   Wah.
 
  Yes, you can now.  I do have.  I have Air on Desktop1 and blue-sun-m on
  Desktop 2.  This wasn't available before KDE 4.3 as far as I know.
 
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 Hi Anne
 How to do this?  If I right-click on the desktop and select Desktop
 Settings it appears that I can only choose one image for all desktops.
  This functionality of having an image for each desktop from KDE 3.x is the
 only thing that I (really!!!) miss in KDE 4.x.  I really do think that KDE
 4 is now much superiour to KDE 3 excepting the (perhaps minor issue for the
 KDE devs) of having multiple desktop images to match the prefered
 use/purpose for that desktop.  No other element in KDE 4 makes me wish to
 regress back to the previous system (except the use of kyum which upon
 installation pulls in many elements from KDE 3...)
 Has kyum been ported to KDE 4?  How to enable selecting an image for each
 desktop configured?
 /fennix
 PS:  I think that it would be better stated that there are 2 issues for me:
  (1) Enabling selecting a unique image for each of my desktops.  

See my reply to Gene.  I'll add it to UserBase today if no-one else has done 
it.
  (2)
  Installing kyum for upgrading my current Fedora installation without
 pulling in many elements/libraries of KDE3 to support this application.
 I know that I should post this to the KDE.org/brainstorm link you had
 posted previously...but I feel that if this is a majour issue then many
 must have already complained before now so if no-one has said much then
 these are not majour issues to the general KDE community...  (Running KDE
 4.3.00 currently...)
 /fennix

Where are you finding kyum?  Searching my repos doesn't find it.  If you are 
installing a KDE 3 app it will have to call in KDE3 libraries - I don't see 
any way around that.

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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 28 August 2009 09:09:33 Anne Wilson wrote:
 OK - I get testy before breakfast.

 I'd forgotten how I did it.  You may remember that I said a long time ago
 that you could do it in Activities, but not in desktops.  Now you combine
 the two.

 Use the desktop cashew to zoom out  create an Activity for each desktop
 that you want - IOW 4 desktops = 4 Activities   Configure each Activity
 with the wallpaper you want.  Go back to your first Activity and zoom in -
 you are back where you started.

 Now go to each desktop, zoom out, set one Activity to use that desktop,
 zoom in.  Do this for each desktop.  Now you can use your desktops just as
 you always did, but each has settings that are independent of each other.

 Takes a few minutes to set up, but from then on it's as easy as it always
 was.

Quicker way - and, I think, the way that I did it:

http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/FAQ/4.3#How_can_I_use_virtual_desktops_as_activities_.3F

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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-28 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
 On Friday 28 August 2009 07:50:02 Anne Wilson wrote:
  On Friday 28 August 2009 04:22:23 Gene Heskett wrote:
   On Thursday 27 August 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
   On Thursday 27 August 2009 20:21:55 Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
 On Thursday 27 August 2009 17:02:34 Michael Hennebry wrote:
  On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA wrote:
   Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different
   workspaces? If yes how?
 
  Not, I am told, with recent versions of KDE.
  Wah.

 Yes, you can now.  I do have.  I have Air on Desktop1 and blue-sun-m
 on Desktop 2.  This wasn't available before KDE 4.3 as far as I
 know.
   
Hello Anne
I am running the KDE 4.3 that ships with Fedora 11.  I do not see how
to put different images on different virtual desktops.  Any help is
appreciated.
   
   Hmm - I just added extra desktops and set wallpapers from the desktop
right- click menu, without a problem.  I don't recall having to change
anything else to allow this, but I'll ask around in the morning in case
I've forgotten something.
   
   Anne
  
   Ah, yes, but in kde-4.3, we are still stuck with one wallpaper for all
   screens.  That sucks about a 10-33 tor vacuum IMO.
 
  NO WE ARE NOT!  Please!! I asked for a few hours sleep before searching for
  what was needed to enable it.  It definitely works on my laptop.
 
 OK - I get testy before breakfast.
 
 I'd forgotten how I did it.  You may remember that I said a long time ago 
 that 
 you could do it in Activities, but not in desktops.  Now you combine the two.
 
 Use the desktop cashew to zoom out  create an Activity for each desktop that 
 you want - IOW 4 desktops = 4 Activities   Configure each Activity with the 
 wallpaper you want.  Go back to your first Activity and zoom in - you are 
 back 
 where you started.
 
 Now go to each desktop, zoom out, set one Activity to use that desktop, zoom 
 in.  Do this for each desktop.  Now you can use your desktops just as you 
 always did, but each has settings that are independent of each other.
 
 Takes a few minutes to set up, but from then on it's as easy as it always was.

Well, now I have a new problem.  I have three desktops that each have a 
different 
image on the background.  This is good.  My fourth desktop also has a different 
image on it (again, this is good), BUT all the plasmoids have dissappeared from 
it!

Actually, it is more like this:
Desktop 1: All the plasmoids have dissappeared.

Desktop 2: All the plasmoids remain on the desktop, but in different positions 
and different sizes.

Desktop 3: one of the plasmoids has actually become the size of the entire 
desktop (with no way to resize it) and the other plasmoids are still there, and 
can be resized and moved around just like a normal plasmoid.

Desktop 4: Same as Desktop 2

OK, I just discovered that one of the desktops had been changed to Folder 
View  
(That would have been Desktop 3)  So, after changing that back to Desktop 
View, Desktops 2, 3  4 now have all the original plasmoids.  Unfortunately, 
like mentioned above, they were randomly rearranged, and I will also have to 
resize them.

Desktop 1 still is nothing but a blank image.  All the plasmoids had 
dissappeared.

Anyway, I need to get to work now :)

Steven P. Ulrick

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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 28 August 2009 10:53:56 Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
  On Friday 28 August 2009 07:50:02 Anne Wilson wrote:
   On Friday 28 August 2009 04:22:23 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Thursday 27 August 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 27 August 2009 20:21:55 Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
  On Thursday 27 August 2009 17:02:34 Michael Hennebry wrote:
   On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA wrote:
Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different
workspaces? If yes how?
  
   Not, I am told, with recent versions of KDE.
   Wah.
 
  Yes, you can now.  I do have.  I have Air on Desktop1 and
  blue-sun-m on Desktop 2.  This wasn't available before KDE 4.3
  as far as I know.

 Hello Anne
 I am running the KDE 4.3 that ships with Fedora 11.  I do not see
 how to put different images on different virtual desktops.  Any
 help is appreciated.

Hmm - I just added extra desktops and set wallpapers from the
 desktop right- click menu, without a problem.  I don't recall
 having to change anything else to allow this, but I'll ask around
 in the morning in case I've forgotten something.

Anne
   
Ah, yes, but in kde-4.3, we are still stuck with one wallpaper for
all screens.  That sucks about a 10-33 tor vacuum IMO.
  
   NO WE ARE NOT!  Please!! I asked for a few hours sleep before searching
   for what was needed to enable it.  It definitely works on my laptop.
 
  OK - I get testy before breakfast.
 
  I'd forgotten how I did it.  You may remember that I said a long time ago
  that you could do it in Activities, but not in desktops.  Now you combine
  the two.
 
  Use the desktop cashew to zoom out  create an Activity for each desktop
  that you want - IOW 4 desktops = 4 Activities   Configure each Activity
  with the wallpaper you want.  Go back to your first Activity and zoom in
  - you are back where you started.
 
  Now go to each desktop, zoom out, set one Activity to use that desktop,
  zoom in.  Do this for each desktop.  Now you can use your desktops just
  as you always did, but each has settings that are independent of each
  other.
 
  Takes a few minutes to set up, but from then on it's as easy as it always
  was.

 Well, now I have a new problem.  I have three desktops that each have a
 different image on the background.  This is good.  My fourth desktop also
 has a different image on it (again, this is good), BUT all the plasmoids
 have dissappeared from it!

 Actually, it is more like this:
 Desktop 1: All the plasmoids have dissappeared.

 Desktop 2: All the plasmoids remain on the desktop, but in different
 positions and different sizes.

 Desktop 3: one of the plasmoids has actually become the size of the entire
 desktop (with no way to resize it) and the other plasmoids are still there,
 and can be resized and moved around just like a normal plasmoid.

 Desktop 4: Same as Desktop 2

 OK, I just discovered that one of the desktops had been changed to Folder
 View (That would have been Desktop 3)  So, after changing that back to
 Desktop View, Desktops 2, 3  4 now have all the original plasmoids. 
 Unfortunately, like mentioned above, they were randomly rearranged, and I
 will also have to resize them.

 Desktop 1 still is nothing but a blank image.  All the plasmoids had
 dissappeared.

 Anyway, I need to get to work now :)

They are now Activities, not simple Desktops.  Before, plasmoids were on all 
desktops, but if you want your desktops for different purposes you probably 
neither need nor want all on every desktop.  Activities are independent.  On 
each desktop place the plasmoids that fit the kind of work you do on that 
desktop. :-)

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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-28 Thread Michael Hennebry

On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:


I'd forgotten how I did it.  You may remember that I said a long time ago that
you could do it in Activities, but not in desktops.  Now you combine the two.

Use the desktop cashew to zoom out  create an Activity for each desktop that
you want - IOW 4 desktops = 4 Activities   Configure each Activity with the
wallpaper you want.  Go back to your first Activity and zoom in - you are back
where you started.

Now go to each desktop, zoom out, set one Activity to use that desktop, zoom
in.  Do this for each desktop.  Now you can use your desktops just as you
always did, but each has settings that are independent of each other.

Takes a few minutes to set up, but from then on it's as easy as it always was.


Thanks much.
I'll try it.

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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-28 Thread Michael Hennebry

On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:


Quicker way - and, I think, the way that I did it:

http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/FAQ/4.3#How_can_I_use_virtual_desktops_as_activities_.3F


On second thought, I might do it that way.
Again, thanks much.

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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-28 Thread Ed Greshko
Anne Wilson wrote:
 On Friday 28 August 2009 10:53:56 Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
   
 On Friday 28 August 2009 07:50:02 Anne Wilson wrote:
   
 On Friday 28 August 2009 04:22:23 Gene Heskett wrote:
 
 On Thursday 27 August 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
   
 On Thursday 27 August 2009 20:21:55 Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
 
 On Thursday 27 August 2009 17:02:34 Michael Hennebry wrote:
 
 On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA wrote:
   
 Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different
 workspaces? If yes how?
 
 Not, I am told, with recent versions of KDE.
 Wah.
   
 Yes, you can now.  I do have.  I have Air on Desktop1 and
 blue-sun-m on Desktop 2.  This wasn't available before KDE 4.3
 as far as I know.
 
 Hello Anne
 I am running the KDE 4.3 that ships with Fedora 11.  I do not see
 how to put different images on different virtual desktops.  Any
 help is appreciated.
   
 Hmm - I just added extra desktops and set wallpapers from the
 desktop right- click menu, without a problem.  I don't recall
 having to change anything else to allow this, but I'll ask around
 in the morning in case I've forgotten something.

 Anne
 
 Ah, yes, but in kde-4.3, we are still stuck with one wallpaper for
 all screens.  That sucks about a 10-33 tor vacuum IMO.
   
 NO WE ARE NOT!  Please!! I asked for a few hours sleep before searching
 for what was needed to enable it.  It definitely works on my laptop.
 
 OK - I get testy before breakfast.

 I'd forgotten how I did it.  You may remember that I said a long time ago
 that you could do it in Activities, but not in desktops.  Now you combine
 the two.

 Use the desktop cashew to zoom out  create an Activity for each desktop
 that you want - IOW 4 desktops = 4 Activities   Configure each Activity
 with the wallpaper you want.  Go back to your first Activity and zoom in
 - you are back where you started.

 Now go to each desktop, zoom out, set one Activity to use that desktop,
 zoom in.  Do this for each desktop.  Now you can use your desktops just
 as you always did, but each has settings that are independent of each
 other.

 Takes a few minutes to set up, but from then on it's as easy as it always
 was.
   
 Well, now I have a new problem.  I have three desktops that each have a
 different image on the background.  This is good.  My fourth desktop also
 has a different image on it (again, this is good), BUT all the plasmoids
 have dissappeared from it!

 Actually, it is more like this:
 Desktop 1: All the plasmoids have dissappeared.

 Desktop 2: All the plasmoids remain on the desktop, but in different
 positions and different sizes.

 Desktop 3: one of the plasmoids has actually become the size of the entire
 desktop (with no way to resize it) and the other plasmoids are still there,
 and can be resized and moved around just like a normal plasmoid.

 Desktop 4: Same as Desktop 2

 OK, I just discovered that one of the desktops had been changed to Folder
 View (That would have been Desktop 3)  So, after changing that back to
 Desktop View, Desktops 2, 3  4 now have all the original plasmoids. 
 Unfortunately, like mentioned above, they were randomly rearranged, and I
 will also have to resize them.

 Desktop 1 still is nothing but a blank image.  All the plasmoids had
 dissappeared.

 Anyway, I need to get to work now :)

 
 They are now Activities, not simple Desktops.  Before, plasmoids were on all 
 desktops, but if you want your desktops for different purposes you probably 
 neither need nor want all on every desktop.  Activities are independent.  On 
 each desktop place the plasmoids that fit the kind of work you do on that 
 desktop. :-)

   
I suppose that at one time or another I will achieve what I am after. 
Yet, to have learn all this activities / plasmoid / activities
stuff seems to be much more complicated than it needs to be 

Just seem like a whole lot of crap to me

(Full disclosureI have had too many GT's tonight)

But, if it takes me multiple steps and non-intuitive logic to reach my
goal then I consider it a FAIL

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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 28 August 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Friday 28 August 2009 07:50:02 Anne Wilson wrote:
 On Friday 28 August 2009 04:22:23 Gene Heskett wrote:
  On Thursday 27 August 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
  On Thursday 27 August 2009 20:21:55 Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
On Thursday 27 August 2009 17:02:34 Michael Hennebry wrote:
 On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA wrote:
  Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different
  workspaces? If yes how?

 Not, I am told, with recent versions of KDE.
 Wah.
   
Yes, you can now.  I do have.  I have Air on Desktop1 and
blue-sun-m on Desktop 2.  This wasn't available before KDE 4.3 as
far as I know.
  
   Hello Anne
   I am running the KDE 4.3 that ships with Fedora 11.  I do not see
   how to put different images on different virtual desktops.  Any help
   is appreciated.
  
  Hmm - I just added extra desktops and set wallpapers from the desktop
   right- click menu, without a problem.  I don't recall having to
   change anything else to allow this, but I'll ask around in the
   morning in case I've forgotten something.
  
  Anne
 
  Ah, yes, but in kde-4.3, we are still stuck with one wallpaper for all
  screens.  That sucks about a 10-33 tor vacuum IMO.

 NO WE ARE NOT!  Please!! I asked for a few hours sleep before searching
 for what was needed to enable it.  It definitely works on my laptop.

OK - I get testy before breakfast.

I'd forgotten how I did it.  You may remember that I said a long time ago
 that you could do it in Activities, but not in desktops.  Now you combine
 the two.

Use the desktop cashew to zoom out  create an Activity for each desktop
 that you want - IOW 4 desktops = 4 Activities   Configure each Activity
 with the wallpaper you want.

Not usable Anne. I went to the cashew  did the zoom thing, which proceeded 
to overlay the screen completely, covering your msg.  Then things locked up, 
clock stopped, mouse froze, no response to a ctl+alt+bkspc and I had to use 
the hdwe reset to reboot..  Now the screen background I did have set is gone, 
as is the plasma launcher that was occupying the upper left 1/6th of the 
screen.  Other stuff seems to run ok if I can find it in the menu's to run 
it, but my previous desktop has been quite destroyed.

So how do I restore that transparent program launcher, and my background 
picture now so I am at least back to what kde4.1 could do?

 Go back to your first Activity and zoom in -
 you are back where you started.

Where is this zoom in button, it doesn't exist here, nor does there appear to 
be any back out without changing anything facility.

Now go to each desktop, zoom out, set one Activity to use that desktop,
 zoom in.  Do this for each desktop.  Now you can use your desktops just as
 you always did, but each has settings that are independent of each other.

Takes a few minutes to set up, but from then on it's as easy as it always
 was.

If only there were zoom buttons for both directions, there doesn't appear to 
be a zoom in, only out to ever smaller muti-images, all the same pix until it 
crashes.  I just repeated it after rebooting, and was trying to locate my 
background pix, but the thumbnail viewer would have taken at least 2 hours to 
display every pix in the selected directory.  Painfully slow, on a quad core 
phenom.  And I had 2 zoom out buttons, and no zoom in button.

I accidentally found just now that rolling the center wheel of the mouse 
seems to exit it, but I still have a plain blue screen background on all 8 
screens.

This is plainly NOT usable as a means of configuring the desktop.

I found my picture and applied it, but most screens are still overlaid with 
the zoom out stuff, how to I exit that other than rebooting again?  I can see 
the selected pix on some screens, reduced to 1/4 screen, but there is not a 
zoom in button to restore the normal view.  Rebooting certainly doesn't seem 
to me to be a valid exit method, this after all, isn't a winderz box. :(

Anne


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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 28 August 2009 16:22:33 Gene Heskett wrote:
 If only there were zoom buttons for both directions, there doesn't appear
 to be a zoom in, only out to ever smaller muti-images, all the same pix
 until it crashes.

Use the Magnifying glass with a + on it.

Also, I sent another post with an easier way, but it never seems to have made 
it to the list (the same info did, in another list).  What it said was:

Quicker way - and, I think, the way that I did it:

http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/FAQ/4.3#How_can_I_use_virtual_desktops_as_activities_.3F

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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 28 August 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Friday 28 August 2009 16:22:33 Gene Heskett wrote:
 If only there were zoom buttons for both directions, there doesn't appear
 to be a zoom in, only out to ever smaller muti-images, all the same pix
 until it crashes.

Use the Magnifying glass with a + on it.

Both magnifying glasses available from a click on the cashew have a - sign in 
them.  Once that is done once or twice, for even smaller images, I can see 
the launcher plasmoid on the upper left version of the correct background 
pix, which only shows on two of the mini-screens I can see on screen 0 now.  
The plasmoid is also there, but it mostly hidden in a black and white menu 
overlay that hasn't even got a zoom button on it.  The menu overlays choices 
are:

Lock Widgets
Shortcut Settings
Add activity
Zoom out
Configure Plasma

Having zoomed out twice, I now have what looks like ten mini screens, 2 
columns maybe 5 high, but the bottom two are cut off by the bottom of the 
screen, but only 8 are actually configured in another menu.  And only two of 
those are showing the selected pix, the top 2 in the left column.  And the 
second one does not have the plasmoid launcher.

And of course, without a zoom _in_ function, there is no exit other than 
ctl+alt+bkspc  then to re startx.

Hell of a way to run a train, what am I going to have  to do, remove kde and 
reinstall it?  If that is what it takes, I'll bet the farm on amanda, and 
switch distros, possibly to 64 bit centos5.3.

Or depend on amanda for recovery and install centos5.3?  This install, with 
its broken disk partitioner has been strangely problematic several times, but 
I found the reason for some of the instability last week, memtest86 made me 
rotate  reseat the dram sticks, and now all is well in that dept again.

I have been a faithful redhat fan since RH5.1, but this fedora, with its 
purposely broken printing and audio ever since it was spun off, will be the 
straw that breaks this old camels back.  We, with our bug reports, help RH 
make the paid version as stable as a rock, but I'm tired of jumping through 
the hoops, and info purposely being with held that prevents those of us who 
_can_ run an editor and fix or improve it.

A prime example of that is this weeks thread, repeated at 2 or 3 week 
intervals, asking just where the hell pulse is started so they can disable it 
once and for all and have reliably working sound again.  All we get there is 
obfuscation,  maybe its here or there for an answer.

Also, I sent another post with an ealier way, but it never seems to have
 made it to the list (the same info did, in another list).  What it said
 was:

I can also comment on this mail server, there are times when my posts either 
disappear outright, or are any where up to 36 hours coming back.  I can post 
to lkml and it comes back in 90 seconds maximum, the period of fetchmails 
scan set here.  This server either needs more iron, or is at best, miss-
configured.  Today so far, its working fairly well, my posts are at least 
coming back in 10 to 15 minutes.  Lets check, its is 14:02:55 local time 
right now.

Quicker way - and, I think, the way that I did it:

http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/FAQ/4.3#How_can_I_use_virtual_desktops_as_ac
tivities_.3F

Anne

This is with kde-4.3?

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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-28 Thread Michael Hennebry

On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:


Also, I sent another post with an easier way, but it never seems to have made
it to the list (the same info did, in another list).  What it said was:


It did.


Quicker way - and, I think, the way that I did it:

http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/FAQ/4.3#How_can_I_use_virtual_desktops_as_activities_.3F


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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 28 August 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
 Also, I sent another post with an easier way, but it never seems to have
 made it to the list (the same info did, in another list).  What it said
 was:

It did.

 Quicker way - and, I think, the way that I did it:

 http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/FAQ/4.3#How_can_I_use_virtual_desktops_as_
activities_.3F

After messing with this, checking and unchecking and rechecking the options, 
I finally got it to show me a + in a magnifying glass icon, but only on the 
lower border of screen 0, the one I was on at the instant.  This took it back 
to full screen per screen and I was able to set a different pix per screen 
then.

Now I have the cashew in the upper right corner of only the first 7 screens 
of 8, and a plasmoid launcher only on screen 0.

How can I restore that plasmoid to the other 7  screens, and restore the 
cashew to the 8th screen?
 
My other msg actually came back in less than 90 seconds elapsed time, which 
is nothing short of amazing, sort of the inverse of the watched pot never 
boiling I guess. It must have figured it out that I was timing it :-)

Thanks Anne.

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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 28 August 2009 19:49:32 Gene Heskett wrote:
 On Friday 28 August 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote:
 On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
  Also, I sent another post with an easier way, but it never seems to have
  made it to the list (the same info did, in another list).  What it said
  was:
 
 It did.
 
  Quicker way - and, I think, the way that I did it:
 
  http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/FAQ/4.3#How_can_I_use_virtual_desktops_as
 _ activities_.3F

 After messing with this, checking and unchecking and rechecking the
 options, I finally got it to show me a + in a magnifying glass icon, but
 only on the lower border of screen 0, the one I was on at the instant. 
 This took it back to full screen per screen and I was able to set a
 different pix per screen then.

You should have the magnifying glass under each Activity.

 Now I have the cashew in the upper right corner of only the first 7 screens
 of 8, and a plasmoid launcher only on screen 0.

I've no idea why your cashew is missing - it's on every one here, although for 
some reason, one of them is quite faint, while the others are bright.

 How can I restore that plasmoid to the other 7  screens, and restore the
 cashew to the 8th screen?

For each desktop, right-click and select Add Widgets.  Add the widgets 
relevant to the activity you intend for that desktop.

Remember that your desktops now act independently.  You can have leisure-
related widgets on a different desktop from your work-related ones.

If that's not what you meant by 'plasmoid launcher', describe a bit more what 
you want.

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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 28 August 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Friday 28 August 2009 19:49:32 Gene Heskett wrote:
 On Friday 28 August 2009, Michael Hennebry wrote:
 On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
  Also, I sent another post with an easier way, but it never seems to
  have made it to the list (the same info did, in another list).  What
  it said was:
 
 It did.
 
  Quicker way - and, I think, the way that I did it:
 
  http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/FAQ/4.3#How_can_I_use_virtual_desktops_
 as _ activities_.3F

 After messing with this, checking and unchecking and rechecking the
 options, I finally got it to show me a + in a magnifying glass icon, but
 only on the lower border of screen 0, the one I was on at the instant.
 This took it back to full screen per screen and I was able to set a
 different pix per screen then.

You should have the magnifying glass under each Activity.

 Now I have the cashew in the upper right corner of only the first 7
 screens of 8, and a plasmoid launcher only on screen 0.

I've no idea why your cashew is missing - it's on every one here, although
 for some reason, one of them is quite faint, while the others are bright.

 How can I restore that plasmoid to the other 7  screens, and restore the
 cashew to the 8th screen?

For each desktop, right-click and select Add Widgets.  Add the widgets
relevant to the activity you intend for that desktop.

The very terse wording makes it non-intuitive.  And clicking on help gets me 
the advisory that it has not yet been written.

Remember that your desktops now act independently.  You can have leisure-
related widgets on a different desktop from your work-related ones.

If that's not what you meant by 'plasmoid launcher', describe a bit more
 what you want.

What I want is the same, semi transparent launcher to be available on all 8 
screens.   For that, it seems I should be able to edit an rc or conf file 
someplace, and just copy/paste that same stanza in the verses for the other 7 
screens.

Thanks, Anne

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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-27 Thread Germán Racca
On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 21:29 +0530, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA wrote:
 Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces? If
 yes how?
 
 Kishore

If yout desktop is GNOME, then there is an application called
'wallpapoz' that allows you to do that.

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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-27 Thread Michael Hennebry

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA wrote:


Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces? If yes
how?


Not, I am told, with recent versions of KDE.
Wah.

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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-27 Thread RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA
Thank you. It is working

Kishore

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Germán Racca german.ra...@gmail.comwrote:

 On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 21:29 +0530, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA wrote:
  Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces? If
  yes how?
 
  Kishore

 If yout desktop is GNOME, then there is an application called
 'wallpapoz' that allows you to do that.

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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 27 August 2009 17:02:34 Michael Hennebry wrote:
 On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA wrote:
  Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces? If
  yes how?

 Not, I am told, with recent versions of KDE.
 Wah.

Yes, you can now.  I do have.  I have Air on Desktop1 and blue-sun-m on 
Desktop 2.  This wasn't available before KDE 4.3 as far as I know.

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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-27 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
 On Thursday 27 August 2009 17:02:34 Michael Hennebry wrote:
  On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA wrote:
   Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces? If
   yes how?
 
  Not, I am told, with recent versions of KDE.
  Wah.
 
 Yes, you can now.  I do have.  I have Air on Desktop1 and blue-sun-m on 
 Desktop 2.  This wasn't available before KDE 4.3 as far as I know.

Hello Anne
I am running the KDE 4.3 that ships with Fedora 11.  I do not see how to put 
different images on different virtual desktops.  Any help is appreciated.

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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 27 August 2009 20:21:55 Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
  On Thursday 27 August 2009 17:02:34 Michael Hennebry wrote:
   On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA wrote:
Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces?
If yes how?
  
   Not, I am told, with recent versions of KDE.
   Wah.
 
  Yes, you can now.  I do have.  I have Air on Desktop1 and blue-sun-m on
  Desktop 2.  This wasn't available before KDE 4.3 as far as I know.

 Hello Anne
 I am running the KDE 4.3 that ships with Fedora 11.  I do not see how to
 put different images on different virtual desktops.  Any help is
 appreciated.


Hmm - I just added extra desktops and set wallpapers from the desktop right-
click menu, without a problem.  I don't recall having to change anything else 
to allow this, but I'll ask around in the morning in case I've forgotten 
something.

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Re: [fedora] Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-27 Thread Dave Martin
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 08:41:11PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
  Hello Anne
  I am running the KDE 4.3 that ships with Fedora 11.  I do not see how to
  put different images on different virtual desktops.  Any help is
  appreciated.
 
 
 Hmm - I just added extra desktops and set wallpapers from the desktop right-
 click menu, without a problem.  I don't recall having to change anything else 
 to allow this, but I'll ask around in the morning in case I've forgotten 
 something.

All you have to do is right click on each desktop to set it.  

The maxpect/centered option does fail for non-primary monitors though.


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Re: [fedora] Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-27 Thread Steven P. Ulrick
 On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 08:41:11PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
   Hello Anne
   I am running the KDE 4.3 that ships with Fedora 11.  I do not see how to
   put different images on different virtual desktops.  Any help is
   appreciated.
  
  
  Hmm - I just added extra desktops and set wallpapers from the desktop right-
  click menu, without a problem.  I don't recall having to change anything 
else 
  to allow this, but I'll ask around in the morning in case I've forgotten 
  something.
 
 All you have to do is right click on each desktop to set it.  
 
 The maxpect/centered option does fail for non-primary monitors though.

Hello Dave
For some reason it does not work that way for me here.  Here is a screenshot of 
my desktop settings dialog:
http://www.afolkey2.net/~steve/20090827-Fedora11-ScreenShot-001.jpg

When I do try to do exactly like you described, of course the first desktop I 
try 
it on is changed to whatever picture I choose.  But when I try it on the second 
desktop, the picture on the second desktop changes to the new picture, but so 
does the one that I had changed previously.  This is the KDE 4.3 that I 
recently 
got from the official Fedora updates repo.

Please feel free to tell me whatever it is that I am missing.

Steven P. Ulrick

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Re: [fedora] Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-27 Thread Ed Greshko
Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
 On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 08:41:11PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
 
 Hello Anne
 I am running the KDE 4.3 that ships with Fedora 11.  I do not see how to
 put different images on different virtual desktops.  Any help is
 appreciated.
 
 Hmm - I just added extra desktops and set wallpapers from the desktop right-
 click menu, without a problem.  I don't recall having to change anything 
   
 else 
   
 to allow this, but I'll ask around in the morning in case I've forgotten 
 something.
   
 All you have to do is right click on each desktop to set it.  

 The maxpect/centered option does fail for non-primary monitors though.
 

 Hello Dave
 For some reason it does not work that way for me here.  Here is a screenshot 
 of 
 my desktop settings dialog:
 http://www.afolkey2.net/~steve/20090827-Fedora11-ScreenShot-001.jpg

 When I do try to do exactly like you described, of course the first desktop I 
 try 
 it on is changed to whatever picture I choose.  But when I try it on the 
 second 
 desktop, the picture on the second desktop changes to the new picture, but so 
 does the one that I had changed previously.  This is the KDE 4.3 that I 
 recently 
 got from the official Fedora updates repo.

 Please feel free to tell me whatever it is that I am missing.

 Steven P. Ulrick

   
I must be missing something as well since my experience matches
yours  :-(

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Re: Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces

2009-08-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 August 2009, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 27 August 2009 20:21:55 Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
  On Thursday 27 August 2009 17:02:34 Michael Hennebry wrote:
   On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, RAMAKISHOREBABU KOPPULA wrote:
Can we have different desktop backgrounds for different workspaces?
If yes how?
  
   Not, I am told, with recent versions of KDE.
   Wah.
 
  Yes, you can now.  I do have.  I have Air on Desktop1 and blue-sun-m on
  Desktop 2.  This wasn't available before KDE 4.3 as far as I know.

 Hello Anne
 I am running the KDE 4.3 that ships with Fedora 11.  I do not see how to
 put different images on different virtual desktops.  Any help is
 appreciated.

Hmm - I just added extra desktops and set wallpapers from the desktop
 right- click menu, without a problem.  I don't recall having to change
 anything else to allow this, but I'll ask around in the morning in case
 I've forgotten something.

Anne

Ah, yes, but in kde-4.3, we are still stuck with one wallpaper for all 
screens.  That sucks about a 10-33 tor vacuum IMO.

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