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[jimwg]

Greetings:

While using Mint I requested some Mint forum mavens whether they could improvise a way to assign wallpapers to particular desktops until Mint people actually install such in their OS, and the geniuses came up with this freebie to the linux community, courtesy of ToZ at Linux Mint Forums. It works really well! I am posting this in hopes that some enterprizing Puppy maven might somehow adapt it for Puppy:

Jim in NYC

# # #
install new:
1. save the code below to a file (e.g. $HOME/bin/wspm)
2. make the file executable
3. start it manually when you want to use it or add it to your startup applications for automatic use.



#!/bin/bash
# The Poor Man's Desktop/Workspace solution (version 2)
# Requires: wmctrl
# Make sure you edit the WORKSPACE configuration parameters to suit.

# make sure that only one instance of this script is running
lockfile=/tmp/.wspm.lockfile
if ( set -o noclobber; echo "locked" > "$lockfile") 2> /dev/null; then
trap 'rm -f "$lockfile"; exit $?' INT TERM EXIT
echo "wspmDEBUG: Locking succeeded" >&2

######### EDIT THESE VALUES #########################################################################
###
### WORKSPACE_WALL -> image file or backdrop list (slideshow images)
### WORKSPACE_STYLE -> 0=auto, 1=centered, 2=tiled, 3=stretched, 4=scaled, 5=zoomed
### WORKSPACE_CYCLETIMER -> for background slideshow, spceify how often in minutes to cycle image
###
### Note: You need one set of configuration parameters for each available workspace
###
### Workspace #1
WORKSPACE_WALL[1]="/home/toz/Pictures/avatars/avatar.png"
WORKSPACE_STYLE[1]=1
WORKSPACE_CYCLETIMER[1]=0
### Workspace #2
WORKSPACE_WALL[2]="/home/toz/Pictures/avatars/avatar.png"
WORKSPACE_STYLE[2]=2
WORKSPACE_CYCLETIMER[2]=0
### Workspace #3
WORKSPACE_WALL[3]="/home/toz/Pictures/avatars/avatar.png"
WORKSPACE_STYLE[3]=3
WORKSPACE_CYCLETIMER[3]=0
### Workspace #4
WORKSPACE_WALL[4]="/home/toz/.config/xfce4/desktop/backdrop.list"
WORKSPACE_STYLE[4]=0
WORKSPACE_CYCLETIMER[4]=1
#####################################################################################################

######### DO NOT EDIT BELOW #########################################################################
CURRENT_WORKSPACE=$(($(wmctrl -d | grep \* | cut -d' ' -f1)+1))
xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p /backdrop/screen0/monitor0/image-path -s "${WORKSPACE_WALL[$CURRENT_WORKSPACE]}"
xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p /backdrop/screen0/monitor0/image-style -s "${WORKSPACE_STYLE[$CURRENT_WORKSPACE]}"
xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p /backdrop/screen0/monitor0/backdrop-cycle-timer -s "${WORKSPACE_CYCLETIMER[$CURRENT_WORKSPACE]}"

while true
do
sleep 1
NEW_WORKSPACE=$(($(wmctrl -d | grep \* | cut -d' ' -f1)+1))
if [ $CURRENT_WORKSPACE -ne $NEW_WORKSPACE ]; then
wmctrl -s $(($NEW_WORKSPACE)-1)
xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p /backdrop/screen0/monitor0/image-path -s "${WORKSPACE_WALL[$NEW_WORKSPACE]}"
xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p /backdrop/screen0/monitor0/image-style -s "${WORKSPACE_STYLE[$NEW_WORKSPACE]}"
xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -p /backdrop/screen0/monitor0/backdrop-cycle-timer -s "${WORKSPACE_CYCLETIMER[$NEW_WORKSPACE]}"
CURRENT_WORKSPACE=$NEW_WORKSPACE
fi
done

rm -f "$lockfile"
else
echo "wspmDEBUG: Lock failed - exit" >&2
exit 1
fi

[Karl Godt]

Package: xfconf
utilities for managing settings in Xfce
http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/xfconf

Dunno, some use xfce and others ratpoison .
I am too much basic it seems, living with maidservant jwm and Diva e17 .

[amigo]

wmctrl is nice because it does lots of cute things with lots of wm's

Could you please enclose your code in code tags?

[jimwg]

Greetings!

I've been told that e17 roughly does this same trick, but only thing is you lose the kind of toolbar and easy desktop icon emplacement that you have in JWM, and though some say you can build el7's "shelf/ibar" toolbar to look and act the same as JWM's and XFCE's, I've no clue how. It makes things worst because it seems my MacPup 2.5.9 CD or flash install doesn't have fbpanel on it (just like no SeaMonkey) and Puppy mavens claim that you need fbpanel to configure items on the toolbar itself, like the clock format and making the whole toolbar auto-hide and such. But I'm open to be educated on methods how!

Jim in NYC

[jimwg]

[musher0]

I asked a tangent question here: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=721213#721213

[musher0]

Hello, all.

The following is a "seed" more than anything else...

[L18L]

[jimwg]

[jimwg]

[jimwg]

An alternative for this that might be simplier is to create is a "switch wallpaper" icon button that allows a pre-set row of wallpapers to pop up in whatever desktop. Like a kind of macro shortcut from manually doing the Nathan Wallaper Settings each time. I'm just a newbie making suggestions that might not work!

Jiom in NYC

[musher0]

[musher0]

Hello, again.

This went faster than expected.

Please find attached three scripts that will hopefully answer your need
for changing backdrops. Don't forget to make the scripts executable.

Please note that it is not possible in ROX to automatically change
backdrops AND desks, ROX was not designed that way. I'm using wmctrl
to artificially bring the user to the next desk after having changed the
ROX backdrop.

The dependency wmctrl is included in the pet package below.

This will require some involvement on your part: you will have to take my
three PuppyPin templates and populate them (or not!) according to your
needs, most importantly according to the programs you want shown on
a particular desk.

It's easy enough to do, you just drag a program from say, /usr/bin/
gmplayer and drop it where you like on the desk. But you have to do it.
Expect errors in icons if you use my examples "out of the box".

I have put the desk icons at the top right, but you may put them
wherever is convenient for you. The idea is to keep them together. In my
templates, the icon for the desk I'm on does not show, so I know at a
glance where I am.

The illustrations show some "pills" on the left. Those command some
ROX panels which I've located on the left. Please be patient: how to
create and change ROX panels will be the subject of the next chapter!
For the time being, simply prefix with a "#" the "-l=(blabla)"
parameter at the end of the ROX line in the scripts.

Any questions, please ask. BFN.

[jimwg]

[jimwg]

Can't get it to work. Maybe a typo?

Jim in NYC