Noob

[Blaine Clark <blaineclrk@gmail.com>]

Hello all.

Noob to this list and to more-or-less, kind-a sort-a straight Debian. I 
recently installed LMDE 4 for my wife and myself. I was playing around 
with the fresh release on a Live load and my wife decided to watch over 
my shoulder. She said "I want that, now". Everyone knows when the wife 
says 'I want that' and then adds 'now', that means 'why don't I have it 
already'! So-o ...

We've been Linux users since 2007. We started with Ubuntu and stayed 
there until 2012 when they went all Unity on us, blech. We moved to 
Linux-Mint Mate and stayed there until two weeks ago when we moved to 
LMDE. My wife is blind in one eye and has distorted vision in the other 
plus 'floaters'. I've just got age induced moderate low vision. She 
prefers low contrast colors and themes which we just blunder into as 
best we can. Does anyone on list have some off the cuff or some 
standardized tips, hints and tweaks for us to try for low contrast?

One more item, is there a way to include personalized desktop settings 
and current themes into a backup? Maybe I'll break these two questions 
into two emails if that's better.

Thanks all

Blaine