[SOLVED]Full Monty desktop backgrounds/wallpapers

[CDSH]

 

I Installed fresh copy of FullMonty and went through configurations and it looked pretty good.  Except, that I would like different backgrounds or wallpapers for each of the 6 pages.  I looked everywhere (that I could think of) and never found anyplace to change the standard/default ones.

Is there a way to change those ?

[Phil]

Hi CDSH,

Wallpapers are right click on desktop > Folder View Settings > View
(I am not sure if you can get a different wallpaper for each desktop)
(Loads of wallpapers in synaptic, care when getting them from outside)
(If you have your own I think it goes in /usr/share/wallpapers)

There is also an KDE feature called Activities, right click on desktop, but do some research first. There was an article in the monthly magazine.

Also plenty of screensavers :

Icon Configure Your Desktop > Hardware > Display (and do a search in synaptic for screensavers)

Also weird desktop effects like the spinning cube etc:

Icon Configure Your Desktop > Workspace Appearance > Desktop Effects


CARE - perhaps backup .kde4 in your home directory to say .kde4bak before fiddling (so you can easily recover) Dot files are hidden so in Dolphin file manager select Show Hidden Files to see them.

You need to Unlock Widgets before fiddling (and remember to Lock widgets when done)

Enjoy yourself,

Phil

[CDSH]

Thank you Phil,

Your solution work much better than the one that I was attempting.  Long story but suffice it to say mine did not go that well.  Although I must admit that the three hours of tracking down, copying and renaming files were quite entertaining - albeit equally frustrating.  In short, you saved me a re-install and repeat of even more fruitless efforts.

Next puzzlement:  When I boot up, the system always goes to desktop two (office) and stays there for a few seconds before proceeding to the desktop that I selected in fm-setwidgets.  It also did that as a default prior to my doing anything.   Can that be changed so that the system goes directly to the appropriately selected and prefered desktop (in this case desktop 6)

[Phil]

Hi CDSH,

Glad things went ok. Three hours seems too long to fix a desktop.

If a desktop goes horribly wrong you can revert to the default by deleting .kde4 and it will regenerate itself on the next boot. (If you have your desktop just right then back it up to a file called say .kde4bak, which just needs copying back to .kde4 to restore)

I did see a thread somewhere about the login to desktop 2 rather than desktop 1. Cannot remember the solution.

Doing a full reinstall is ok, does not take too long. Just a pain to get things back as they were.

I very strongly recommend you back up your system from time to time, and ahead of any major change. I use closezilla to save my / system (partition /dev/sda1). When there is a glitch for whatever reason its just a 5 minute annoyance to recover the system. Note I also backup my personal files using rsync on a cron job.

On the system backup there are three different ways; clonezilla, make a live dvd.iso of your system, and most esteemed O-Ps way which is in a thread somewhere. Take your pick.

As other questions arise do a quick search and then post on the forum. Questions welcomed as usually PClinux is boring. Off to the sandbox

[CDSH]

Three hours of entertainment is not really that bad - especially if I am learning something new.  Additionally,  my professional experience includes about 30 years of main frame programming on the system level in assembler and other lower and higher level languages - I'm kind of used to time expenditures when it comes to getting a computer to do something. 

As far as PCLOS, I'm new at the vocabulary and coordinates of useful items and efficiently finding my way around.  Being an older person, I have to just have patience with the primate in the chair at the keyboard.

Back to my quandary ... I just reinstalled the whole shebang.  I'll mark the original post as solved and start a new one with my secondary question which remains an issue even though I reinstalled the OS on a more robust platform - a 64 bit quad core with 8 gig ram that I built myself and currently runs Fedora 17, Mint 11, Windows 7, and Windows 8 in Virtual box 4.1.  PCLOS Full Monty resides on its own Hard drive and currently is the only operating OS HD.

Thank you for your patience and assistance - Hopefully, you and I will survive the learning curve.

[Phil]

Hi CDSH,

30 years on mainframes, that is impressive.

Doing a reinstall is fine, lots of permutations to ponder on.

Kernel - suggest banging in a new kernel, 3.2 with pae and bfs is probably what you want with all that memory. Note first boot take a while, press Esc to see what it is up to, and have patience.

Try getvirtualbox, script than does the install with guest additions. It works really well. I have half a dozen virtual machines to play with, and no rebooting etc.

I also re-iterate the system recovery idea. Three choices, I plump for using a clonezilla live cd to back up my system. (Maybe RBS's Indian branch should have been better at recovery.....)

As a bonus when you select a screensaver try the BSOD one. You may recognise a few of them, some are ancient.

Keep asking questions, only way to learn. If you are a glutton for information on linux rummage in the documentation section of synaptic.