Moving widgets to different desktops

[The Woozy Fieldmouse]

I know I'm chain-posting here, so I hope the admins don't get annoyed, but I want to know how to move widgets from one desktop to another and can't find anything about it with google searches.

[Linkmaster]

Re: Moving widgets to different desktops

Concerning widgets and different desktops, you can do one of several things. You can first go to 'system settings'->'workspace behavior'->'virtual desktops' to turn on and off the option different widgets for desktops. You can turn it on to have two completely different desktops if you wish.
I don't know if its possible to drag a widget from one desktop to the other, what I do know is that you can the same widget as many times as you want[or until your CPU can't handle it anymore, whicever comes first] and you can then go to each desktop and customize it.
There are some good plasma-desktop forum posts explaining it in more detail, I'll see if I can procur at least one for you in the future to further explain things

[Guest]

Re: Moving widgets to different desktops

As Linkmaster said you can do it through the systems settings. I have found that you are not able to drag the widgets from desktop to desktop. However, if you do have a second monitor you can drag them in between(they act as the same desktop just extended) but be careful because I lost a few widgets in the empty space between my monitors.. To put different widgets on different desktops I just go to the desktop, open the widget menu, and drag which ones I want on to the desktop. I do that for each desktop.

[bsniadajewski]

Re: Moving widgets to different desktops

You wouldn't need to drag widget anyway. The widgets show up on all desktops.

[vinnywright]

Re: Moving widgets to different desktops

You wouldn't need to drag widget anyway. The widgets show up on all desktops.

not if you have ...."different widgets for each desktop" ....checked in pager settings>virtual desktop


VINNY

[oshunluvr]

Re: Moving widgets to different desktops

You wouldn't need to drag widget anyway. The widgets show up on all desktops.

This comment also assumes you have only one monitor. With multi-monitor setups using twinview or mergedfb (or whatever ati is using these days) you should be able to drag widgets across from one to the other.

There is slightly odd behavior when you hit the change-over point (I use nvidia's twinview) - you have to drop the widget as soon as you cross over, but you can re-select it and drag it wherever you want after that.