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Originally Posted by pwabrahams
... KDE4... One of my frustrations is that there doesn't seem to be any way to have different backgrounds for different desktops.
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This is annoying as the ability to recognise which desktop you are on was certainly a usability feature of kde.
Well, there is a way, but, as it is a relatively recent kde 4 feature and I'm not sure whether your kde is up-to-date enough.
I think that you have ~kde 4.3.0 (or maybe a bit later). By kde 4.3.3 or 4.3.4 the feature certainly existed, but I not sure exactly when it came in, so you might have it. Or, conceivably, not.
In any case, setting it isn't as straightforward/apparent as it was under kde 3.x. Select a desktop (say, desktop 1...btw, this is inaccurate as the things that look like desktops are really 'activities' now, whatever difference that makes), go to the desktop config (right click on the wallpaper, select desktop configuration) and change the wallpaper for that desktop (err, activity). Select another desktop and change the wallpaper for that.
If they change independently, you have the feature, but if they stay in sync, you don't.