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Offline JoXo009

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wallpaper per workspace
« on: December 19, 2009, 11:49:01 PM »
I use icewm and want to get different wallpaper per workspace.

An earlier version of icewm was able to, but that feature has been removed seemingly.

As workaround I found the following solution:
1. remove the workspace switching buttons on icewm task bar
2. create a custom button on the task bar starting a script
3. within that script use esetroot to set the desired Wallpaper
4. and use xdotool to switch workspace

Maybe there is a better solution. Esetroot for example contains the parameter -display, but instead of solving the described problem esetroot returns the message 'coudn't open display 1'

Maybe I used the wrong display name. Don't know. Any hint?

Offline ^thehatsrule^

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Re: wallpaper per workspace
« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2009, 12:09:10 AM »
display probably refers to the X server's

Offline JoXo009

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Re: wallpaper per workspace
« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2009, 12:36:26 AM »
display probably refers to the X server's
You are right, after using
esetroot -d :0.0 ......
the background changed. Thanks

Unfortunately the background changed for all workspaces, so esetroot doesn't seem to offer a wallpaper per (icewm-)workspace solution.

Probably I'll have to stick to my above workaround.