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    [How To] Have up to 9 home screens on N900 !

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    etuoyo | # 191 | 2010-07-27, 21:27 | Report

    How do you change the backgrounds of the extra desktops? I have 5 desktops with 5 different pictures (not sure how I achieved that). But I cannot change the background of the 5th desktop. And if I add more desktops I am stuck with the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th desktop being stuck with the same background as the 5th.

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    m.r.a.haak | # 192 | 2010-07-28, 09:36 | Report

    I had the same problem took me about one hour to find out what to do. But this worked for me :

    1) follow these instructions : http://maemobriefs.blogspot.com/2010...e-screens.html

    2) make sure the package rootsh is installed and run the following commands in xterm:

    sudo gainroot

    cd /home/user/MyDocs

    wget http:// my.arava.co.il/~matan/770/n900/hildon-home_0.3.58+0m5_armel.deb

    dpkg -i hildon-home_0.3.58+0m5_armel.deb

    3) in xterm :

    gconftool-2 -s /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/views/5/bg-image -t string /home/user/MyDocs/.images/NAMEOFYOURIMAGE.jpg

    you can change the number of the desktop you want the image attached to by changing the 5 into a 6, a 7 , a 3 or whatever. F.e.

    for changing desktop nr 6. :

    gconftool-2 -s /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/views/6/bg-image -t string /home/user/MyDocs/.images/NAMEOFYOURIMAGE.jpg

    hope this works for you!

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    Last edited by m.r.a.haak; 2010-07-28 at 09:41.
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    etuoyo | # 193 | 2010-07-31, 09:25 | Report

    Originally Posted by m.r.a.haak View Post
    I had the same problem took me about one hour to find out what to do. But this worked for me :

    1) follow these instructions : http://maemobriefs.blogspot.com/2010...e-screens.html

    2) make sure the package rootsh is installed and run the following commands in xterm:

    sudo gainroot

    cd /home/user/MyDocs

    wget http:// my.arava.co.il/~matan/770/n900/hildon-home_0.3.58+0m5_armel.deb

    dpkg -i hildon-home_0.3.58+0m5_armel.deb

    3) in xterm :

    gconftool-2 -s /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/views/5/bg-image -t string /home/user/MyDocs/.images/NAMEOFYOURIMAGE.jpg

    you can change the number of the desktop you want the image attached to by changing the 5 into a 6, a 7 , a 3 or whatever. F.e.

    for changing desktop nr 6. :

    gconftool-2 -s /apps/osso/hildon-desktop/views/6/bg-image -t string /home/user/MyDocs/.images/NAMEOFYOURIMAGE.jpg

    hope this works for you!
    Yikes!!!! Sounds scary but will give it a try. Was hoping for a much simpler solution like how you change the backgrounds if you have only 4.

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    Matan | # 194 | 2010-07-31, 09:45 | Report

    Originally Posted by m.r.a.haak View Post
    wget http:// my.arava.co.il/~matan/770/n900/hildon-home_0.3.58+0m5_armel.deb

    dpkg -i hildon-home_0.3.58+0m5_armel.deb
    Version 0.3.58 is from PR1.1. If you upgraded your device to PR1.2, you should use 0.3.66.

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    lanser | # 195 | 2010-07-31, 13:33 | Report

    i'm copy/pasting the above replacing with a real image file of course but the extra screens still come up black

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    NightShift79 | # 196 | 2010-08-05, 02:22 | Report

    the only way I know to set wallpapers for Desktops >4 is to manually copy the wallpapers to /home/user/.backgrounds

    and name them background-5.png, background-6.png and so on...
    ...which is sad, somehow...

    this works even without installing also modded hildon-home.
    Once I tried modded hildon home from http://my.arava.co.il/~matan/770/n90...+0m5_armel.deb
    but this makes things worse! I can't use the whole "Desktop Option Set Background" version 0.3.58 has similar issues, but at least the menu opened....

    hope there'll be a more handy way to set extra desktops with wallpapers any time soon....

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    Last edited by NightShift79; 2010-08-05 at 02:26.

     
    AgogData | # 197 | 2010-08-09, 05:10 | Report

    btw if i get 6 backgrounds and i wanted to delete 2 of them and i dont want n900 to randolmly delete any 2 what to do ?

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    chemist | # 198 | 2010-08-09, 11:17 | Report

    Originally Posted by AgogData View Post
    btw if i get 6 backgrounds and i wanted to delete 2 of them and i dont want n900 to randolmly delete any 2 what to do ?
    It is not randomly picked it is desktop 6 and 5 which disappear if you delete 2 of 6. It is always the last one which gets deleted. To know which are 1-6 you can use a set of wallpapers. For swapping around your home screen's sort order have a look over here.

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    AgogData | # 199 | 2010-08-09, 13:58 | Report

    Originally Posted by chemist View Post
    To know which are 1-6 you can use a set of wallpapers
    do u mean like a theme ? cuz the theme auto arrange the backgrounds

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    NightShift79 | # 200 | 2010-08-12, 16:40 | Report

    @Matan

    Are you still working on this to make it more comfortable to set wallpapers for extra Desktops ?

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