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Upgrade F16 -> F17 and backgrounds all black (KDE)

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – Hi, I've just upgraded from 16 to 17 and everything has gone fine as far as I can see except one point. From 16 the upgrade has preserved my 4 workspaces and two panels with all their bells and whistles. However my background is just black (the splash screen shows the Beefy Miracle fireworks, until my workspaces load) and the widgets I had on the background have disappeared. I would normally just reconfigure my backgrounds as I wished, but what is weird is that I have the 'fade' transition when switching and, for the duration of the fade, it displays my old workspace, with the Verne b (HowTos)

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Identifying Workspaces 34 weeks 6 days ago

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Having Workspaces is quite useful, but is there a way to easily identify which is which? In other words, if I have a terminal open in three of the workspaces it would be nice to have (for instance) the background colour of each workspace unique.

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Ubuntustudio 12.04, kernel 3.2.0-23-low latency Hp Pavillion MS 220la AMD Athlon(tm) X2 Dual core Processor 3250e 1500MHz.

When i last turned on the computer, i found only 1 workspace. At settings appeared 4 in number of workspaces, but only the workspace named 1. 3 other disappeared.

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The Guest-account works fine, so I logged into that one, and tried to switch to my own.

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