Re: Noob

[Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <jpmengual@debian.org>]

Hi,

When you install Debian, you can use the dark theme at the install time. 
This has 2 consequences:
- it installs the MATE desktop, the most flexible desktop I know from a 
visual point of view
- it installs the COmpiz window manager, bringing plugins for negative 
colours, and you can add additional utilities such as omox to set the 
theme and tweak it.

I dont know LMDE, but I dont think it is as accessible as MATE.

Regards




Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
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Le 12/04/2020 à 22:42, Blaine Clark a écrit :
> 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