Programmatically Changing the Xfce Desktop Names

[Shlomi Fish]

On Monday 28 Dec 2009 12:48:32 Peter de Ridder wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 6:48 AM, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at iglu.org.il> wrote:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > How can I programmatically change the virtual desktop names of Xfce while
> > Xfce is running? I'd like to write a script to initialise desktops 1-8
> > with names that I define in case they get reset.
> 
> You can do this with xfconf-query.
> To set the workspace count use: xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p
> /general/workspace_count -s 8
> The workspace names are stored as an array so you must specify them all at
>  once. xfconf-query -c xfwm4 -p /general/workspace_names -s "Name 1" -s
>  "Name 2" -s "Name 3" (etc.)
> 

Many thanks! I'll try that and let you know how it works out.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

> Regards,
> Peter
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