Can We Have Different Wallpapers For Each Workspace under Gnome

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I was wondering whether we can have different wallpapers in each workspace of a Linux distro using Gnome. Googled it. Solutions I found require desktop effects to be enabled. My laptop can't take up that much load. So I wanted to know if their's a way to do so without enabling any effects.

[note] My distro is Fedora 14.

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The short answer is not without applying patches.

But you could use a different window manager / desktop environment. Enlightenment, for example, supports this feature.

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Workspaces – How to Start an Application on a Different Workspace

Check out Devil's Pie (although i am not sure it would work with Gnome3), and you can find more useful information on stackoverflow bash.

Basically you should do the following:

#!/bin/bash
wmctrl -n 8

firefox &
thunderbird &
/usr/bin/netbeans --locale en &
amsn &
gnome-terminal &
sleep 15

wmctrl -r firefox -t 0
wmctrl -r netbeans -t 1 
wmctrl -r terminal -t 2 
wmctrl -r amsn -t 6 
wmctrl -r thunderbird -t 7

#focus on terminal
wmctrl -a terminal

(i have just copy & pase the above code from the StackOverFlow link above, since i think it is self explanatory).

UPDATE:

See here for an easier solution at the best site for Gnome 3 extensions, you should install the Auto Move Windows extension for Gnome 3. In case it isn't working for you (as you can see at the link there are some distros that the automation of the installation isn't working right, get a more detailed exploitations here on how to get it work.

Shell – Adding wallpapers in GNOME Shell

Is there any way I could set the [Wallpapers] tab to automatically find new pictures under /usr/share/backgrounds/ as well?

There's no such option. The [Wallpapers] tab shows the default choice of wallpapers (which may vary depending on distros/admins) available to all users. Distros/admins may choose to alter the content of /usr/share/backgrounds/ (along with the corresponding entries in the .xml file). I don't think it was meant to be customized by regular users.

is there a way I could change the configuration, so that, when clicking on the [Pictures] tab, it will look under /whatever/i/want/ instead of ~/Pictures/?

Yes, the [Pictures] tab is, to some extent, customizable. Pictures is one of the XDG user directories and is defined in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs. Change the default value XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures" to XDG_PICTURES_DIR="/whatever/i/want", restart the shell and next time you click on the [Pictures] tab in the [Background] settings, it'll look under /whatever/i/want.
The downside is that some other applications that use XDG_PICTURES_DIR will also default to /whatever/i/want instead of ~/Pictures.

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