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different wallpapers on each side of the cube?

Postby ciclo » Tue Dec 04, 2007 5:50 am

is anybody succeed to make different workspace with different wallpaper with wallpaper plguin?
i enabled it but there seems no effect.
i also make sure that png plugin is before wallpaper plugin
following is my content of wallpaper

file:///home/wing/Picture/vista/img31.png:50;
file:///home/wing/Picture/vista/Forest.png:50;
file:///home/wing/Picture/vista/img27.png:50;
file:///home/wing/Picture/vista/img33.png:50;

and i also tried remove the semicolon but it also does not work
what's wrong?
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Re: WallPaper plugin

Postby ciclo » Tue Dec 04, 2007 6:09 am

solved
thanks
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Re: WallPaper plugin

Postby Fyda » Tue Dec 04, 2007 6:39 am

For anyone else who comes across this thread and is wondering what the unmentioned solution was, I'm posting this.

First of all, if you are using Desktop Cube, there's no need to use the Wallpaper plugin; multiple wallpapers can be set within Cube (see the Appearance tab -> Background Images section). This plugin, therefore, is primarily useful for people who use Desktop Wall.

Both Desktop Cube and Wallpaper require the same adjustment to your system configuration, though: it is necessary to disable Nautilus, KDesktop, or any other app from drawing a desktop window (the window that contains the wallpaper and desktop icons). This means that the desktop icons will no longer be shown. The reason for this is that these plugins draw the wallpapers underneath that desktop window. It is therefore also technically possible to see them if you use a transparent cube, but this is not an option for Wall users.

For GNOME users with Nautilus drawing the desktop, this can be done by running gconf-editor and navigating to the following key:

/apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop

Disable this key (set it to false by unchecking the box next to it). You might also need to run killall nautilus to force Nautilus to quit (if it doesn't do so by itself after you change the setting), but this setting should take effect the next time you start up a GNOME session.
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Re: WallPaper plugin

Postby ciclo » Tue Dec 04, 2007 3:28 pm

Fyda wrote:For anyone else who comes across this thread and is wondering what the unmentioned solution was, I'm posting this.

First of all, if you are using Desktop Cube, there's no need to use the Wallpaper plugin; multiple wallpapers can be set within Cube (see the Appearance tab -> Background Images section). This plugin, therefore, is primarily useful for people who use Desktop Wall.

Both Desktop Cube and Wallpaper require the same adjustment to your system configuration, though: it is necessary to disable Nautilus, KDesktop, or any other app from drawing a desktop window (the window that contains the wallpaper and desktop icons). This means that the desktop icons will no longer be shown. The reason for this is that these plugins draw the wallpapers underneath that desktop window. It is therefore also technically possible to see them if you use a transparent cube, but this is not an option for Wall users.

For GNOME users with Nautilus drawing the desktop, this can be done by running gconf-editor and navigating to the following key:

/apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop

Disable this key (set it to false by unchecking the box next to it). You might also need to run killall nautilus to force Nautilus to quit (if it doesn't do so by itself after you change the setting), but this setting should take effect the next time you start up a GNOME session.


COOL! I setup multi-wallpaper from Desk Cube, and it works. Thank you so much!
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Re: WallPaper plugin

Postby ciclo » Tue Dec 04, 2007 5:36 pm

but there is another issue, if i disabled "show_desktop", i can not open nautilus.
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Re: WallPaper plugin

Postby Fyda » Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:24 pm

ciclo wrote:but there is another issue, if i disabled "show_desktop", i can not open nautilus.
That's strange; could you describe what happens when you try to start Nautilus?

On my system, running Nautilus works as normal without creating a desktop window. (However, running it as root does create one. I need to set the same option for root as well. That, or run nautilus --no-desktop.)
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Re: WallPaper plugin

Postby ciclo » Wed Dec 05, 2007 12:27 am

Fyda wrote:That's strange; could you describe what happens when you try to start Nautilus?

On my system, running Nautilus works as normal without creating a desktop window. (However, running it as root does create one. I need to set the same option for root as well. That, or run nautilus --no-desktop.)


it's really strange! i don't know why nautilus doesn't work last night although i restart the system many times, but today, everything works well.

Thank you very much!

BTW: last night, there is no response whenever i run nautilus from menu or from terminal. it just like this :
wing@wing:~$ nautilus


and nothing happens
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Re: WallPaper plugin

Postby ciclo » Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:12 am

and now, the right button's menu cant appear
i cant see the file on my desktop
and when i drap the mouse, there's no dash line
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Re: WallPaper plugin

Postby Fyda » Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:49 am

ciclo wrote:and now, the right button's menu cant appear
i cant see the file on my desktop
and when i drap the mouse, there's no dash line
Yes, that's what happens when you turn off the desktop window... it's Nautilus that provides the right-click menu and desktop icons. Basically, the desktop window is a fullscreen, always-on-bottom, undecorated file manager window, showing the contents of ~/Desktop.
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Re: WallPaper plugin

Postby ciclo » Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:09 am

Fyda wrote:Yes, that's what happens when you turn off the desktop window... it's Nautilus that provides the right-click menu and desktop icons. Basically, the desktop window is a fullscreen, always-on-bottom, undecorated file manager window, showing the contents of ~/Desktop.


i got it. Thank you!
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