Hi,

I use a netbook often with an external 19" monitor, which means that I have to frequently switch back and forth between plasma netbook and desktop workspaces.

Thanks to the information I've found in another thread, I've created 2 launchers (with 2 icons plus 2 *.desktop files executing 2 scripts including the command strings "kquitapp plasma-netbook" and "plasma-desktop" and vice versa...

However, I would appreciate very much if someone could perhaps provide a short script that would simply toggle the plasma workspace by querying and finding out the current plasma workspace, and then terminating it, followed by activating the other plasma workspace.

How about this?

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#!/bin/bash
DESKTOP=`ps ax | grep plasma-desktop | grep -v grep`
NETBOOK=`ps ax | grep plasma-netbook | grep -v grep`

if [ "x$DESKTOP" != "x" ]; then
  kquitapp plasma-desktop && plasma-netbook
elif [ "x$NETBOOK" != "x" ]; then
  kquitapp plasma-netbook && plasma-desktop
else
  echo "Sorry, couldn't detect any plasma workspace"
fi

z.

A simpler alternative using pgrep:

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#!/bin/bash

DESKTOP=$(pgrep plasma-desktop)
NETBOOK=$(pgrep plasma-netbook)

if [ "x$DESKTOP" != "x" ]; then
  kquitapp plasma-desktop && plasma-netbook
elif [ "x$NETBOOK" != "x" ]; then
  kquitapp plasma-netbook && plasma-desktop
else
  echo "Sorry, couldn't detect any plasma workspace"
fi

Thanks a million to zenyatta and einar !!!

I knew it was very easy, although I'm too ignorant about scripting.

Both scripts worked well in switching back and forth between desktop and netbook workspaces now

Sadi

Another option that doesn't require scripting is to use this plasmoid: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/On ... ent=116323

The scripts suggested by zenyatta and einar (actually the commands plasma-desktop and plasma-netbook) change the screen but leave the setting in System Settings/Workspace Behaviour/Workspace in the last manually selected position which results in behaviours like "BorderlessMaximizedWindows=false" (~/.kde/share/config/kwinrc) in Netbook mode.

Therefore, it needs to be complemented at least with a command to toggle the value for "BorderlessMaximizedWindows" in ~/.kde/share/config/kwinrc between "true" and "false"