[openbox] Per-workspace wallpaper impossible?

[Eric Shattow]

yeah. or, if you're already running gnome with ob3 as the wm, you could 
run multi-backgrounds-daemon.   i have this going with 3ddeskd for 
switching workspaces,  pure functional eyecandy.

Mikael Magnusson wrote:

>On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Marc Wilson wrote:
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>>On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 05:31:10PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote:
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>>>So what's the deal? Is per-workspace wallpaper simply not possible under 
>>>OB3, or have I misconfigured something?
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>>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.
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>>Stuff like that isn't really the job of the window manager in any case.
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>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
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