23 Nov
2022
23 Nov
'22
1:27 a.m.
On Tuesday 22 November 2022 16:44:58 Jim wrote:
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!
Bill
P.S. I mean, of course, *tweak and tweaking in the hacker sense of these
words. When people heard me use those words out here in California, I
discovered that they meant something quite different.
The same thing, I hear, happens to the Irish when they come to over here to
the States, and ask round about where they can find some really good crack.
Means something different here.
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?