I was wondering if someone could answer a silly question.
I have 4 desktops configured on my PC, 11.1 with KDE 4.2.96.
My question is, can I have different wallpapers for each desktop or just one wallpaper for all desktops?
If I can have different wallpapers, how/where do I configure the change?
Thanks.
If this is RC2 of kde4.3 - Yes
You need the Default Desktop Containment (Right click desktop - settings - Desktop type…)
You should get the toolbox (Cashew) icon top right
click it and select zoom out
use the spanner to config each desktop
Looks like this
http://thumbnails11.imagebam.com/3968/256e0639672147.gif](http://www.imagebam.com/image/256e0639672147)
Thank you very much. Just what I wanted. I don’t suppose you give linux lessons do you? 
Good to hear.
Lessons free to hospitable people with homes in Antigua;)
I have a follow-on question.
I have now 4 desktops each with its own wallpaper. I noticed, though, that only the first desktop has the glass plate - Desktop Folder - up :
http://thumbnails17.imagebam.com/4228/b1278e42271127.gif](http://www.imagebam.com/image/b1278e42271127/)
Although the other three desktops have the same desktop settings, they do not have the Desktop Folder “glass plate” on the desktop.
Can anyone tell me how to rectify this?
Thank you.
Never mind, I’ve just figured it out. I just opened up Konqueror, then copied the Desktop Folder to the Desktop.
Is it possible to change the transparency of the “glass plate”, what is that called?. I mean, can it be customised? I have had a look around, but couldn’t find anything that pertains to it.
Thanks.
It’s called a folder view.
I think the transparency of this is affected by the Desktop theme, eg; oxygen, slim glow, aya,…
that thing you call glass plate is actually called folder view plasmoid
the easy way to change the color and or transparency is to change the theme you use thats the easy way
the hard way is to edit all the svgz files with inkscape and make them more transparent but wouldn’t recommend that unless you know what your doing
caf4926 adjusted his/her AFDB on Thursday 16 Jul 2009 22:46 to write:
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> silkmaze;2013473 Wrote:
>> Never mind, I’ve just figured it out. I just opened up Konqueror, then
>> copied the Desktop Folder to the Desktop.
>>
>> Is it possible to change the transparency of the “glass plate”, what is
>> that called?. I mean, can it be customised? I have had a look around,
>> but couldn’t find anything that pertains to it.
>>
>> Thanks.
> It’s called a folder view.
> I think the transparency of this is affected by the Desktop theme, eg;
> oxygen, slim glow, aya,…
>
>
If you like a certain Theme style for one plasmoid and another for something
else you can mix and match with the Desktop Theme Details in the advanced
section of the personal settings app.
Mark
Caveat emptor
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Nil illegitimi carborundum
I am definitely leaving the hard way to someone else to do. I didn’t realise that I could assign a theme to each desktop. I did notice that when I was choosing a theme, the plasmoid also changed. It didn’t mean anything to me at the time.
Guys, (I’m assuming you are all guys), thank you all very much.
Great you fixed it and learned something new 
Also, we do have a few girls around but they’re not on atm 
Though our female chef G0NZ0 is always lurking in IRC
And another questions about desktops and wallpaper.
Is it possible to have a “moving” wallpaper. What I mean is, when I was using XP, I had a app run a wallpaper that was the earth rotating according to the time of the computer clock.
I always wondered if it was possible to create a gif large enough to cover the screen, and have that as the wallpaper. You know, every few seconds/minutes a new picture would appear as the wallpaper.
I have never created a gif, don’t even know how to, so I don’t know if that is at all possible.
Also I wanted to know, where all the widgets come from; is there a website where I can go to and have a look at them all?
Thank you.
gif i’m not sure about being a wallpaper
there motion wallpaper when you right click desktop go into settings it is called globe and a few others that offer motion
gotto kde-look.org for more widgets or plamoids which there actually called theres also plasma themes there to
Thanks Havoc. I’ll check them out.
silkmaze adjusted his/her AFDB on Friday 17 Jul 2009 04:46 to write:
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> Thanks Havoc. I’ll check them out.
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If you are on KDE4.3 then there are a few in the desktop settings, right
click the desktop and choose desktop settings, then in the drop-down box
under type there is the globe, virus etc…
Have a play with those.
There used to be xplanet that worked on older versions of KDE that was great
you had a textured globe of the Earth and you could d/load the latest
weather, earthquake etc data and have that rendered on the globe which also
the day/night sequence moved and it could be geostationary.
Now you have me thinking about it I wonder if there is a way of getting that
under 4.3 i still have the scripts backed up somewhere.
HTH
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Mark
Caveat emptor
Nullus in verba
Nil illegitimi carborundum
I couldn’t find the globe etc, unfortunately. Here is the version of KDE I am running:
Version 4.2.96 (KDE 4.2.96 (KDE 4.3 RC2)) “release 142”
I am a little confused. Am I running KDE 4.2 or 4.3?
That xplanet sound perfect.
I have had a look at the xplanet sites and found them interesting. It would be cool if you could get it to work with the current version of KDE.
your running 4.3
to get the globe i think you have to install marble from the repo’s and that should give you the globe in the desktop settings
i just looked in yast and it is called plasma-addons-marble just do a search in yast for marble though
Check yast and saw that the marble had already been installed. I updated a couple of other things. Went back to the desktop - settings and found the globe and different settings for it.
Perfect, exactly what I want.
Thanks.
I have been playing around with the various settings for at-least the last 90 minutes. Awesome. Fantastic.
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