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Still can't have different wallpapers on different virtual desktops in Plasma 5. See: https://bugs.kde.org...g.cgi?id=343246

 

I have KDE Plasma 5 in openSUSE 42.2, but I'm hanging on to plasma-desktop 4.11.x in Debian Jessie, mainly because of the above issue. Although I enjoy using various DEs and WMs, I've run KDE ever since I started out with Linux, and being able to have diffefent wallpapers on different desktops has always been one of my favorite things about KDE.

 

Oh, well. I can have different wallpaper setups on different workspaces in Xfce 4.12, and now I can do something similar with LXDE. I probably won't drop KDE, although I wonder if it isn't time to move on. Seems like they took some of the fun out of it. It's still a wonderful desktop environment, all things considered.

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Sounds like the Plasma 5 guys have made one wallpaper - multiple desktops a feature rather than a bug. It's not a dealbreaker for me though as I rarely use more than one desktop at a time.

I really like Plasma 5 overall - in fact it's the first KDE based desktop I might seriously consider using if I ever reinstall Mageia.

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This is the main bug report for this, not closed but not fixed. There are suggestions it is being worked on so there is still hope! https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341143

There are also several workarounds in the comments. One is a tweak of the slideshow function - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341143#c212

The other uses different activities for each virtual desktop - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341143#c214

 

It's not a feature that I miss myself as I rarely have enough going on at one time to bother with virtual desktops, let alone activities.

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