different background images

Punk_Nadel · 2009-02-12 16:23:51

Hi,
I have a question:
Is it possible to set a different background image for each virtual desktop?
I googled a bit but everything I founded was for very old Xfce versions.

Xfce version installed: 4.4.3

Thanks a lot and sorry for my bad english (I'm from germany) wink

El1iP3S01D · 2009-02-13 20:16:25

How did u install xfce 4.43? i have 4.42...

Pindakoe · 2009-02-14 07:25:30

This is (as far as I know) not possible with Xfce.

Punk_Nadel · 2010-02-25 21:46:08

any changes after a year?
Currently installed XFCE4: 4.6.1

P.S. to El1iP3S01D: I simply installed it in my distro (even if I don't think this question is relevant anymore)

brain)(vision · 2010-02-25 22:27:00

I think you have to use some external software or even write a simple script that change your wallpaper automatically at desired time..

etnlWings · 2010-02-26 02:36:32

As long as you're using xfdesktop, there's no way for this to happen. Besides using nautilus to handle the root window, the only other option I'm aware of is a compiz plugin called, "Wallpaper". However, both these options will result in your Xfce desktop menus not working, and desktop icons not working with the compiz fix.

KitchM · 2010-03-01 03:27:14

I've also looked into this, but can't find a solution either. I don't think it is possible with the current version of Xfce. Perhaps there will be a fix in the works, but it may be a little difficult to do. It would probably require the duplication of some of the code for each and every desktop, or perhaps a redesign of a workspace manager. Who knows? Perhaps your idea could be added to the suggestions for the product. I support the idea. It would be more productive to be able to differentiate the various workspaces visually.

brain)(vision · 2010-03-01 09:54:42

etnlWings wrote:

As long as you're using xfdesktop, there's no way for this to happen. Besides using nautilus to handle the root window, the only other option I'm aware of is a compiz plugin called, "Wallpaper". However, both these options will result in your Xfce desktop menus not working, and desktop icons not working with the compiz fix.

There is no way to automatically change backgroung image even using some software program?

KitchM · 2010-03-02 08:32:03

As I understand it, the way that the environment is put together with its various components, and the way that they are coded, does make it impossible to separate the functionality so as to make this capability available to the end user. No doubt this is a place for one of the programmers of the DE to explain, but I believe that is the basic issue that keeps it from being possible.

Every desktop environment is created in different ways. Some are more monolithic and some are more in the form of separate parts. But the real important part is whether or not the capability is built into the programming to give each user the ability to add in the functions each may wish to use. We may compare it to Internet Explorer versus Firefox. Firefox has the ability to allow anyone to add in whatever people may want. Sadly, that is the exception to the rule. We trade the superiority of a more utilitarian design for the superiority of speed and low overhead that Xfce gives us.

At least, that's how I understand it.

(By the way, see my request for user input in this forum. Let's help the programmers with good ideas.)

demosthenese · 2010-03-16 15:10:08

You could use the following as a basis to achieve wallpaper switching:

http://jaredprins.squarespace.com/ubduc … linux.html

Its ubuntu/gnome so will require some changes:

instead of using gconftool in the scripts to set the wallpaper use:

xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p /backdrop/screen0/monitor0/image-path -s ~/path-to-wallpaper
xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p /backdrop/screen0/monitor0/image-show -s true
xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p /backdrop/screen0/monitor0/image-style -s 0

Instead of using gconf-editor to make the keybindings use Settings->Keyboard->Application Shortcuts.

gnome_refugee · 2010-03-25 09:17:47

Thanks, demosthenese, this worked for me first time!

But... I prefer to switch workspaces by mouse-scrolling on a blank part of the desktop, and I haven't found a configuration file that defines this action, so I can't associate it with the wmctrl scripts. Is the switch-workspaces-with-scroll function deep in the binaries? It must be separate from other scroll functions, like scrolling within documents and hide/unhide-shade/unshade on the window bar.

demosthenese · 2010-04-10 04:45:16

ok - not quite what you want but at least a mousy solution:

Install brightside.
Alt-f2 -> brightside-properties.

Set 2 of the corner actions to run the scripts you already have for paging left and right through the workspaces.

HTH

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