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Q Kustomising wallpaper

I recently installed Ubuntu 22.04 on my computer and for the most part I really like it (compared to my older computer running 12.04). I prefer KDE to Gnome, so I switched to that desktop, but there are a few annoying issues I have with this new version that don’t affect the older version. First, they somehow broke the desktop wallpaper. I have two monitors with four virtual desktops; on the old computer that means I have eight unique wallpapers to look at. But this current version reverts to Windows 10 functionality. Every virtual desktop shares the same wallpapers, which means all four desktops have the same two wallpapers. From what I’ve read, they prefer that everyone uses Activities and those allow for unique wallpapers. Is there any way to fix this for the main desktops, or at least convince them to fix what wasn’t broken?

Second, I like my desktops to have the same layouts each time I boot. My Bash shells cooperate, my Firefox windows cooperate, but my Dolphin windows all stack on top of each other each time I start my computer, regardless of where they were when I shut down, so I manually reposition them knowing they’ll all clump together next session. I’ve tried setting new rules in System Settings (Window Management > Window Rules), but no joy.

Third, when my PC goes to sleep and I log back in, the audio is switched to the right monitor’s speakers every time even though I have explicitly set audio to the superior left monitor’s speakers (and usually I get no sound, anyway). Each time, I’m forced to

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