[openbox] Per-workspace wallpaper impossible?

[Mikael Magnusson]

On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Marc Wilson wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 05:31:10PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote:
> > So what's the deal? Is per-workspace wallpaper simply not possible under 
> > OB3, or have I misconfigured something?
> 
> You'd have to have something that watched for openbox to switch workspaces,
> and then reset the root pixmap when it happened.  The window manager isn't
> going to help you, it'd have to be an external application.
> 
> Stuff like that isn't really the job of the window manager in any case.

A faster solution that just came to mind would be to have a 
_net_wm_type_desktop (or whatever the name is) type window that has all 
the pixmaps preloaded and just switches them over when you change 
workspace. It would probably use like 3M of ram per workspace though.

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Mikael Magnusson