Reply To: Having a different desktop for each IceWM workspace

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It seemed like a good idea, @Dave, but doesn’t work. I think because of the way linux filesystems deal with inodes, zzzfm’s view of the folder remains unchanged even when the symlink is changed or even for thst matter when the actual directory is moved.

What does work is moving all the contents of the directory e.g.

mv $HOME/Desktop/* $HOME/Desktop0 && mv $HOME/Desktop1/* $HOME/Desktop

I guess doing that is not a big deal as long as they’re on the same filesystem, but still it seems a lot less elegant than the way it can be done with rox.

I used to think zzzfm’s way of providing desktop icons was better, but now that I’ve been using rox a bit, I like its style. It’s more well suited to having multiple desktops, too, I think, since the contents are defined in xml files instead of cluttering up the actual filesystem.

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