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Re: too late to the party?



I don’t really have anything to address regarding most of your questions 
below, but I can tell you that I personally enjoy using KDE on Debian.  I run 
the KDE packages from Debian testing, which I would expect to be a bit less 
stable, but it has been a while since I have had problems with KDE crashing.

On Friday, August 23, 2024 6:00:39 AM MST DdB wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> first things first:
> I am surprised about the very low volume of this list, maybe because
> other lists have much more traffic. Could it be, that the party has
> already moved elsewhere, and i am too late?
> 
> I did install KDE in bookworm for the first time, (fed up with many
> years of GNOME before that), and have seen a couple of pleasant
> surprises. But also quite a big lack of experience on my side ... don't
> know how to and stuff like that ...
> 
>  Several issues are bugging me:
> 1. I can't get Window rules to work, neither for wayland nor for x11, i
> seem to be doing those wrong.
> 2. I would really like to have a clickable menu only with my own
> commands/scripts in it, preferably configured in one single file, not
> spread out over many. Is such a thing available?
> 3. Some applications are not listed by wmctrl -l as if they were not
> managed by the window manager, therefore i cannot move them around in my
> scripts (and windows rules ... i told ya)
> 4. True story: after just one day of living in the new environment, it
> crashed hard, all the open applications were gone. Could be a strange
> rare incident, whereas, in buster-gnome, i had such a thing happen to me
> only about 4 times per year!
> 
> Could this be an indicator, that the devs have already moved to new
> horizons?
> 
> I am a solitaire retired old guy, thus slow and whatnot. But i am trying
> to set up a stable + reproducible environment for the years to come, my
> old environment (still in use every day), is an unsupported old-old-stable.
> 
> any comment/hint/suggestion warmly welcome, DdB


-- 
Soren Stoutner
soren@debian.org

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