On 10/15/2024 05:25 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 10/14/2024 06:43 AM, Dan Purgert wrote:
On Oct 13, 2024, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 10/13/2024 04:57 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
On Sat, Oct 12, 2024 at 08:27:55AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
It has been my habit since days of Squeeze to install the new
Debian to a
fresh fresh partition and then use Grub to chose which version for a
particular session.
I have two what might loosely be described as configuration questions.
1. I have 2 Panels of icons for launching tools/applications at the
top of my display. Are they inventoried anywhere? I want a "check
sheet" to verify I effectively have the same flexibility on my
new
system.
Which desktop on Debian 9?
MATE
Just a preferred arrangement? Write down what the arrangement is and
reimplement it for yourself once you've installed 12?
Essentially what I'm doing ;}
It's inefficient.
Debian "knows" and can reproduce icons on an apparently arbitrary
number if panels. The information is stored somewhere.
Where?
By "Panel", you mean the actual panel/taskbar, right?
Correct.
That's *PROBABLY* buried somewhere in gtk settings somewhere
(necessitating, oh what is it ... gconf-editor ... to dump out?)
Granted, Debian 9-12 might represent sufficient time such that changes
to GTK mean you cannot simply dump from one and load to the other.
Doing a search for "GConf configuration database" [w/o quotes] gives
hits which look relevant. Which icons are on my panels are a secondary
problem.
[...]
The system has a "default" icon size and if you only manually place
files in the Desktop folder what is visually displayed is a regular
grid on non-overlapping icons.
At a minimum I want is when manual moving icons they snap to a
location on
THAT grid spacing.
What actually happens is they are placed at the *precise* pixel
location you "chose" :{
As I recall (read: poorly ;) ); this is an option in the desktop's
context menu to "snap to grid".
I re-examined the entries in the sub-menus of System heading.
Found nothing.
However, reading the hits of my web search may give ideas of keywords
for a search on this more important issue.
Thanks
Wandering a chain of links starting at https://wiki.mate-desktop.org/
leads me to _suspect_ the configuration information I seek is in
/home/richard/.config/dconf/user .
That file changes whenever an icon is moved on a panel *OR* an icon is
moved on the Desktop.
