23 Nov
2022
23 Nov
'22
7:46 a.m.
On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 17:27 (-0800), William Morder via tde-users wrote:
On Tuesday 22 November 2022 16:44:58 Jim wrote:
>> I do very little in the way of changing my
settings when I move from
>> laptop > desktop > laptop > the next miracle device. About the only
>> obvious difference is that I have to hit Ctrl-+ two or three times
>> when I view webpages; otherwise, my system is pretty much identical
>> on my laptop as it was only seven or eight earlier machines, each of
>> them quite different in specs.
> And that is a good accomplishment (it would be
better if you didn't
> have to hit Ctrl-+, but it is still pretty good).
> I have solved this problem by correcting the lie
that the X server
> tells us. Might I ask how you have made your settings work across a
> wide variety of systems?
I wish I could tell you that I just did *this* [cue
the magic dust!], but
there is no method at work, only that I have kept tweaking* my settings, a
little here, a little there, since about 2006, when I first started using
KDE3. My system now looks practically identical to my system back then,
except where I have changed the artwork on the desktop, etc. (See screenshots
on the Trinity page where they have them posted.)
Otherwise, I saved my home folder, whole and complete,
copied to an external
drive, then copy it to the new home folder on the next machine. The only
stuff I don't keep are all the hidden files as the bottom of the home folder,
as they and mostly specific to the present machine, and will need to be
redone. That is about all I can say, tweak, tweak, tweak* away!
So, just to be clear... are you saying that these carefully tweaked
settings work across a variety of DPI values, physical screen sizes,
and different numbers of pixels, or are you saying that when you move
to a new machine with different parameters, you need to do some more
tweaking (but much less than starting from scratch)?
Thanks.
Jim