How to get different wallpapers on different workspaces

[anuban]

I have written a blog post with pictures and steps to bring different wallpapers on different workspaces. Check it out and drop your comments on the post. Your feedback and suggestion to further enhance the customization will be highly appreciated. You might be already doing the same with little different steps. But I thought of putting together some simple bulleted points so that the newbies can also customize their Ubuntu experience.
Here is the link:
http://anuragbansal.wordpress.com/20...ace-in-ubuntu/

Thanks
Anurag Bansal

[klange]

Just thought I'd pop in to mention a few things:
1. For Gutsy, there are patches to Nautilus 2.20 to make it render icons over a clear background, but not for Nautilus 2.22. Blame the GNOME devs for making massive changes to libeel.
2. We (Compiz) no longer support the Cube background drawing, and it has been removed in the git version.
3. We've thrown our support over a newly rewritten Wallpaper plugin, which works even if you don't use the cube.

[anuban]

Thanks for the info...

[Gonzalo_VC]

I have written a blog post with pictures and steps to bring different wallpapers on different workspaces. ...
http://anuragbansal.wordpress.com/20...ace-in-ubuntu/
Thanks
Anurag Bansal

Nice. But... what about doing it without this A.W.N.? Where in Gnome can we set to use different desktop wallpapers?
THANKS!

[loganp82]

thanks i was wondering if this was possible

[anuban]

You can do that without AWN because AWN is only a dock.
But you lose any shortcut on desktop. That;s why AWN...
Without AWN you will have different wallpapers on different workspaces but will lose all desktop functionalities. You can go to Places>Desktop to browse for Desktop though.

Thanks
Anurag

[motin]

A rough gnome applet that enables different wallpapers + icon for each workspace is found here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...74#post5600774

If you only want the different wallpapers, I guess you could comment out the parts that changes the icons:

        os.popen('gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop false')
        os.popen('gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop true')

and

      os.popen('xdg-user-dirs-update --set DESKTOP %s' %self.current_desktop)

Remember: the applet is alpha quality - so be prepared for side effects.

[dr_psikick]

going to try this. Thanks

[Stan_1936]

...We (Compiz) no longer support the Cube background drawing, and it has been remove....

By that do you mean the Skydome?

[timz84]

Here is a wallpaper I made, similar to the one that ubuntu edgy one. Maybe someone might like to use it.



and wide