desktop differentiated icons

[Michael Hennebry]

On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Michael Hennebry wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Rick Stevens wrote:

>> Under Gnome with multiple desktops, the taskbar icons for open terminals
>> show up only when I select the desktop containing the terminals.
>
> Alas, KDE is not so discriminating.
> I get them all.
>
> Step forward KDE fans.
> Do I need to go to Gnome for this?

I seem have hit on the right collection of keywords.
Here are notes I took after a google search:

> http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=83220&start=0

>  [solved] kde only show windows from current desktop in taskbar

> Particularly for Mandriva 2007.1, I can't find a way in the GUI to
> disable
> showing all the windows in the taskbar. You can disable it using your
> text
> editor in the file ~/.kde/share/config/ktaskbarrc (change the value of
> ShowAllWindows to false).
> 
> ShowAllWindows=false. under [General] If there is no [General] then
> simply
> make one line with that first.
> 
> e.g.
> [General]
> ShowAllWindows=false

> Or right click the task bar, select "Configure Panel", click "Taskbar"
> and
> unselect "Show windows from all desktops". One of the first things I do
> after an install.

I wrote:
> Is there a way for an application to discover which desktop it's on?

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