{"id":43060,"date":"2022-08-26T15:33:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T15:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=43060"},"modified":"2024-05-11T07:14:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T07:14:35","slug":"different-wallpaper-each-workspace-ubuntu-22-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2022\/08\/different-wallpaper-each-workspace-ubuntu-22-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Set Different Wallpaper for Each Workspace in Ubuntu 22.04"},"content":{"rendered":"

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UPDATE May 2024: The Extension support stuck at GNOME 42, meaning Ubuntu 22.04 only!<\/b><\/p>\n

Want to set different wallpaper for each desktop workspace? You can now do this in Ubuntu and Fedora via a GNOME extension.<\/p>\n

This is one of my favorite features when Ubuntu was using Unity as default desktop. After switched back to GNOME, I didn’t find an alternative method to re-implement this feature until I met this extension.<\/p>\n

However, this method does not display different wallpapers in overview. Wallpaper applies only when you switched to that desktop (workspace). So, it may be called change wallpaper automatically when switching desktop.<\/b><\/p>\n

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Install the Extension & Set wallpapers in Ubuntu 22.04:<\/h3>\n

For Ubuntu 22.04, first search for and install “Extension Manager”<\/b> from Ubuntu Software.<\/p>\n

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Install Extension Manager in Ubuntu 22.04<\/p><\/div>\n

Next, press Super<\/b><\/i> (Windows logo) key to open overview, search for and open the tool you just installed.<\/p>\n

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When it opens, navigate to “Browse” tab, search for and install “Walkpaper2<\/b>” extension.<\/p>\n

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Finally, switch back to “Installed” tab, click the gear icon for the extension. In pop-up window, just click on the previous image to open dialog to set new wallpaper.<\/p>\n

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NOTE: GNOME by default has 2 desktops, and adds more dynamically. To set fixed number of desktop workspaces, go to “Settings -> Multitasking -> Workspaces”.<\/b><\/p>\n

Set different wallpaper in other GNOME based Linux<\/h3>\n

For Fedora Workstation 36, Arch and Manjaro with GNOME, simply go the to link below and turn on the ON\/OFF switch to install the extension:<\/p>\n

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Install Walkpaper2<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In case you don’t see the ON\/OFF switch, follow the link in that page to install web browser extension and refresh it.<\/p>\n

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To get the settings dialog, install and use “Gnome Extensions<\/b>” app, either from Gnome Software or via pamac package manager.<\/p>\n

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There’s another extension<\/a> with old GNOME support, however lack of versions support for Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 20.04.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATE May 2024: The Extension support stuck at GNOME 42, meaning Ubuntu 22.04 only! Want to set different wallpaper for each desktop workspace? You can now do this in Ubuntu and Fedora via a GNOME extension. This is one of my favorite features when Ubuntu was using Unity as default desktop. After switched back to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[689],"class_list":["post-43060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-howtos","tag-gnome"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}