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Is preseed.cfg flexible enough?



I have a laptop whose *SOLE* purpose is to have multiple installs of Debian for demonstration of different ways Debian may be configured. While I work out kinks I am using Mate as my D.E.

I find some Debian defaults annoying. Setting them to reasonable values on a running system is straight forward but becomes annoying every time an installation is done.

Problem 1. Defeat automounting of usb flash drives
   This can be handled by
     gsettings set org.mate.media-handling automount false
   on a running system if Mate is installed.

Problem 2. Default font size is too small.
In Mate that can be remedied *on a PER USER* basis by menu option
       System>-Preferences->Appearance->Fonts
The default there is "10". I also have note that "10" appears as a default size elsewhere implying that it is system wide. Can I force everything to use "14"?

Problem 3. File-managers default to pretty Icons rather than informative List view.

Can preseed.cfg handle those and similar in an D.E. agnostic manner?
The possibility is hinted near the end of https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apbs05.html.en#preseed-chainload .

TIA




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