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Feature Request - Individual backdrop/color for each workspace
Status:
RESOLVED: DUPLICATE
Severity:
enhancement
Product:
Xfdesktop
Component:
General

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Description padfoot 2010-09-11 05:27:35 CEST
Created attachment 3115 
backdrop manager python script

Hi,

I know this has probably been requested many times, but just wanted to add my own voice to it.

It would be a very useful useability enhancement, and, as far as I know, a feature not currently provided by other desktops (unless they have compiz as the window manager).

For those interested (and for perusal of the devs if they so wish) I have written a short python script that acheives this. The script is attached and is licensed under the GPL so is freely available to all who wish to disect it.

The script depends on: Xfce 4.6.2 and Xfwm4 (of course!), python => 2.5, python-wnck and python-gobject.

To use the script, just make it executable and run it from whatever directory you wish. Add it to your start up scripts if you want it every time you log-in.

Quite simply the script remembers your backdrop settings for each workspace (set using the standard Xfce4 tools) and changes them whenever the current workspace is changed.

Cheers.
Comment 1 Brian J. Tarricone (not reading bugmail) 2010-09-13 04:53:51 CEST

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 369 ***

Bug #6695

Reported by:
padfoot
Reported on: 2010-09-11
Last modified on: 2010-09-13

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Assignee:
Brian J. Tarricone (not reading bugmail)
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backdrop manager python script (7.79 KB, application/x-gzip)
2010-09-11 05:27 CEST , padfoot
no flags

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