Different background for each workspace?

Re: Different background for each workspace?

Postby garolou on Fri Jan 11, 2013 7:03 pm

Yes there is a small delay for the image to load after the workspace switch (less than a second on my system). The script and wallpapoz work at the command line level - the current desktop image is replaced by another one. For a minimal delay switch, the images probably would be stored in memory but that probably requires some coding at a lower level which is beyond my knowledge. Things change fast, maybe some Mint developper will look into this and a solution will appear soon.
In the meantime I can live with a small delay for a non-critical feature.

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Re: Different background for each workspace?

Postby jjaythomas on Fri Jan 11, 2013 8:35 pm

That what I thought
I'm not a programer at all (except a basic cumputer class in tech college, PREMSwindows era, was MSDOS tho) :roll:
I feel old :lol:

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Re: Different background for each workspace?

Postby Dngrsone on Fri Jan 11, 2013 10:33 pm

If it will make you feel any better, my BASIC class was on a TRS-80 Model III... We were fancy because one of our computers had two
720Mb floppy drives.

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Re: Different background for each workspace?

Postby jjaythomas on Sat Jan 12, 2013 12:05 am

Most in class were commodore 64er I think their was a pet also. If remember they (the school) was getting Colts next year. And other classroom had 'apple 2s

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Re: Different background for each workspace?

Postby Dngrsone on Sat Jan 12, 2013 10:16 am

Ah, good times... I didn't get a C-64 until I was 19 or 20. I went all out and got the monitor and dual floppy drives.

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Re: Different background for each workspace?

Postby jjaythomas on Sat Jan 12, 2013 1:05 pm

Ah, good times... I didn't get a C-64 until I was 19 or 20. I went all out and got the monitor and dual floppy drives.

Yea I was out of HS when go into computer (dad bought me C128) I didn't but new of Tandy users! :P Were about even but you edged be out earlier :lol:

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P.S went thru Amigaland to BEOS (actually Win 95 played back to BEOS) Back to Windowsworld finally Linux (I think desktop Linux was pretty new/geeky) :roll:

Sorry long-winded (off topic and nostalgic) (had birthday month ago :cry: ) Had older friend had one of those cassette/storage things.
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Re: Different background for each workspace?

Postby peyrol on Sun Jan 27, 2013 4:49 pm

I'm the original poster. I have LMDE 64 bit with MATE.
I downloaded and installed Wallpapoz, and I can run the GUI.
I have defined a directory of images for each workspace, and I saved my changes.
Then I clicked Daemon->restart. I change workspaces and the background stays the same.
The image is supposed to change after one minute, but it does not.
What obvious thing am I missing? The background I get is the same one I had before,
which was selected by issuing the command: mate-appearance-properties %F

Thanks in advance.
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Re: Different background for each workspace?

Postby jjaythomas on Sun Jan 27, 2013 11:50 pm

sorry away doing other things for few days... :oops:

I'm the original poster. I have LMDE 64 bit with MATE.
I downloaded and installed Wallpapoz, and I can run the GUI.
I have defined a directory of images for each workspace, and I saved my changes.
Then I clicked Daemon->restart. I change workspaces and the background stays the same.
The image is supposed to change after one minute, but it does not.
What obvious thing am I missing? The background I get is the same one I had before,
which was selected by issuing the command: mate-appearance-properties %F


have you saved changes before restart daemon?
only one monitor/display? or have external monitor hooked to laptop ect.?
on mate I have not used since very early version (was very gnome2 compatible) I'll try on newer (1.4 version) of mate :)

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P.S. the first wallpaper will be your 'wallpaper set in mate preferences' the 'walpapoz' ones doesn't take effect till the 1st change to a different desktop (& back). (you can get around that by setting wallpaper the same as 1st in walpapoz the same) :wink:
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Re: Different background for each workspace?

Postby jjaythomas on Mon Jan 28, 2013 12:53 am

Sorry...
on mate I have not used since very early version (was very gnome2 compatible) I'll try on newer (1.4 version) of mate

can't get work on current mate (1.4) :cry: May be code just needs new name for packages? (I'm not a coder unfortunately) :oops:

Does work on LMDE (Xfce) 4.10 (currently using) 4.6 & 4.8 and Hopefully 4.12 when out. also Debians based on squeeze (still gnome2) repos such as 'solus,snow3 ect.

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P.S. I use walpapoz 0.6.2 (I think not being worked on anymore)
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