I am asking the following question on behalf of a friend of mine who (like me) is using Lubuntu 20.04.2. She´s very satisfied with the system but wants to know more of a specific topic which I myself don´t know enough about.
Like in Lubuntu bionic (which still made use of LXDE) she´d like to assign different wallpapers to each of her 4 desktops.
So that when she switches desktops she sees a different wallpaper.
I looked around but couldn´t find any way of configuring that.
Is this still possible in Lubuntu focal (with LXQt)?
Unfortunatelly there is not. But you can build your own wallpaper stitching together different images according to each monitor size.
If you want you can create a script for it, you could inspire you in https://github.com/hmollercl/stitchWP/blob/master/stitchWP.sh
it’s only for 1 image and 2 monitors, but you can start from there.
That script of yours is certainly great and I so much admire you for that.
Yet in its description it says:
As my friend doesn´t use multiple displays in the sense of multiple monitors (she has just one monitor = the laptop´s own monitor) she just wants to assign different wallpapers to different workspaces (of which she has 4).
I definitively lack the competence for re-writing or modifying your script for that task.
But thanks for the suggestion.
Well, I´ll tell her then what she looks for isn´t supported by the LXQt DE.
I don´t know whether this will lead anywhwere but I´d like to tell you about an app which might be of help in the matter
Looking a bit around in the web I stumbled upon the page Top 10+ Best Linux Wallpaper Changer Software .
Of all the wallpaper changers presented there was wallpapoz which caught my eye:
In the description it says:
it has one unique feature. It can set up different wallpapers for different workspaces. For this reason, when you switch your workspaces, you will get a different ambiance.
Wallpapoz was originally developed for the GNOME 2 desktop environment and consists of two components […]
The latest version is said to support GNOME 3 and Xfce. Yet there was no mention of LXQt.
So I don´t know whether the programm would work with Lubuntu 20.04.
The program requires a dependency package, which is not installed automatically.
So you have to install it before the actual installation of Wallpapoz
(translated from German)
sudo apt-get install python-imaging
Yet it seems there´s no installation candidate for that one.
Does anybody know a bit more about wallpapoz (https://vajrasky.wordpress.com/ ) and how to install it?
Or if it works with LXQt at all?
