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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Q&A Forum => Topic started by: JoXo009 on December 19, 2009, 11:49:01 PM

Title: wallpaper per workspace
Post by: JoXo009 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 (http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=16392).

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?

Title: Re: wallpaper per workspace
Post by: ^thehatsrule^ on December 20, 2009, 12:09:10 AM

display probably refers to the X server's

Title: Re: wallpaper per workspace
Post by: JoXo009 on December 20, 2009, 12:36:26 AM

Quote from: ^thehatsrule^ on December 20, 2009, 12:09:10 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.