CDE doesn't make it easy to set the background image of the workspaces dynamically. ... Since the whole reason I did this was to look at jumbo images across both of my monitors, I found another way. cde-backdrop is a shell script (/bin/sh) that can be used on the command line or called from other scripts, which will find the CDE backdrop window which you select by name, and apply an image (in a variety of formats) to that background. cde-backdrop [ workspace | ... Download cde-backdrop version 1.0 . ...