Command to change number of Virtual Desktops?

[mikeym]

Hi,

I'm just wondering if anyone has a command to change the number of virtual desktops under LXDE (with openbox)?

I would like to set up a pair of keyboard shortcuts to add and remove desktops. 2 is normally enough, but sometimes launching something like gimp which really needs one on its own, it would be nice to add some extras.

[TheFu]

Most people setup the largest number of virtual desktops they want and ignore the extras. I suspect that changing the number requires a restart of X-session which will kill all your currently running X/Windows programs - anything in a window.

I found the Openbox Configuration Manager has a place to specify the number of virtual desktops. "ObConf" is the program. It appears you can run with different config files to be used. Mine for LXDE are in ~/.config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml. Basically, I'd make one that I like, copy it to a new filename, then use the GUI to make the changes that I like for more desktops, save and make a copy of that too. Now just pass in obconf the conf file to be used by your script.

'man obconf' to learn more.

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