Hi, Hartmut! Thanks for your patience and perseverance. :-) On Wednesday 23 March 2011 17:19:44 HHa wrote: > > This is something I have done in the past with KDE 3.x, but can't > > remember how. > > start the Control Center->Appearance->Background or Colors or Symbols. I had looked there and not seen it.... As I said to someone else, my brain seems to have blocked up with especially thick, dark treacle. :-( All is great now, with one exception. Although I can give each desktop its own background - to show the type of thing available - and although I am going to each individual background section to change the font colour, all editing I do to the font colour is universal. I would like each desktop to have a different colour of text to go with the different backgrounds. This I can still not achieve. Lisi