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 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 at the top of my display. Are they inventoried anywhere? I want a "check sheet" to verify I effectively have the same flexibility on my new system.Which desktop on Debian 9?MATEJust a preferred arrangement? Write down what the arrangement is and reimplement it for yourself once you've installed 12?Essentially what I'm doing ;} It's inefficient. Debian "knows" and can reproduce icons on an apparently arbitrary number if panels. The information is stored somewhere. Where?By "Panel", you mean the actual panel/taskbar, right?
Correct.
That's *PROBABLY* buried somewhere in gtk settings somewhere (necessitating, oh what is it ... gconf-editor ... to dump out?) Granted, Debian 9-12 might represent sufficient time such that changes to GTK mean you cannot simply dump from one and load to the other.
Doing a search for "GConf configuration database" [w/o quotes] gives hits which look relevant. Which icons are on my panels are a secondary problem.
[...] The system has a "default" icon size and if you only manually place files in the Desktop folder what is visually displayed is a regular grid on non-overlapping icons. At a minimum I want is when manual moving icons they snap to a location on THAT grid spacing. What actually happens is they are placed at the *precise* pixel location you "chose" :{As I recall (read: poorly ;) ); this is an option in the desktop's context menu to "snap to grid".
I re-examined the entries in the sub-menus of System heading. Found nothing.However, reading the hits of my web search may give ideas of keywords for a search on this more important issue.
Thanks