Different background for each workspace?

[Dngrsone]

Garalou's script works fine in Cinnamon 17.1 for me.
Fast enough even on my 6 year old Thinkpad.
If you'd create a RAM disk at startup and copy your backrgrounds to it,
switching will even be faster.

But the whole thing would be much nicer if you could also have different sets of icons per workplace,
e.g. links to manuals, sources and dev tools for your developer workplace,
music, videos and audio software for your creatice workplace ...

This is all native to KDEs Plasma desktop.

[mideal]

This is all native to KDEs Plasma desktop.

Maybe. But it does not give a similar, straight user experience as other desktops, instead sort of annoying popups,
links on the desktop do not behave as expected, a menu which follows this Windows concept of favourites...
I gave it a new try by installing KDE-full.
After an hour of setting up and configurating it still didn't fit my needs.
Sorry, it was simply a ... NO.
I'll keep on searching for another solution.

Does someone know how to restart a running Cinnamon desktop?

[killer de bug]

Does someone know how to restart a running Cinnamon desktop?

alt+F2 --> type 'r' and push enter.

[krumm]

I agree, switching the desktop context along with the background would be awesome. But not worth switching to KDE for...