Re: [update] Re: Updating from Debian 9.13 to 12.7

2024-10-15 Thread tomas
On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 03:12:30PM -0700, Mike Kupfer wrote: > wrote: > > > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > > > 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/use

Re: [update] Re: Updating from Debian 9.13 to 12.7

2024-10-15 Thread Mike Kupfer
wrote: > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > 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 . [...] > Besides, it might be a bad idea to change the file while the de

Re: [update] Re: Updating from Debian 9.13 to 12.7

2024-10-15 Thread tomas
On Tue, Oct 15, 2024 at 10:06:42AM -0700, Mike Kupfer wrote: > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > 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 . > > You can dump the setting

Re: [update] Re: Updating from Debian 9.13 to 12.7

2024-10-15 Thread Mike Kupfer
Richard Owlett wrote: > 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 . You can dump the settings that are in dconf with gsettings list-recursively and redirecting the

[update] Re: Updating from Debian 9.13 to 12.7

2024-10-15 Thread Richard Owlett
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

Re: Updating from Debian 9.13 to 12.7

2024-10-15 Thread Richard Owlett
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

Re: Updating from Debian 9.13 to 12.7

2024-10-14 Thread Dan Purgert
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

Re: Updating from Debian 9.13 to 12.7

2024-10-14 Thread Richard Owlett
On 10/13/2024 12:29 PM, Joe wrote: On Sun, 13 Oct 2024 06:11:17 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: I want to reproduce the visual environment I've developed over the years. In other words, you face the same choice that we all do when it's time to leave an old faithful installation behind: upgrade

Re: Updating from Debian 9.13 to 12.7

2024-10-13 Thread Richard Owlett
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 mig

Re: Updating from Debian 9.13 to 12.7

2024-10-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
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 q

Updating from Debian 9.13 to 12.7

2024-10-12 Thread Richard Owlett
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