27 Jun
2018
27 Jun
'18
8:51 p.m.
today's question to which i should already have the answer but it's been a long
time . . .
rathet than continue to struggle through trying to configure everything on the little
pocket machine, seems worthwhile to copy the configuration files from my notebook machine
to the new one. in the kde days i would have known where to go to harvest these, but
i've not done this, i think, with trinity. and i've done al the reinstalls i feel
like doing for awhile.
so -- is there a grand directory of trinity configurations beyond ~/.trinity?
thanks.
dep
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27 Jun
27 Jun
9:09 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] grand ~/ repository of trinity configurations?
On Wednesday 27 June 2018 03:51:19 pm dep wrote:
today's question to which i should already have
the answer but it's been a
long time . . .
rathet than continue to struggle through trying to configure everything on
the little pocket machine, seems worthwhile to copy the configuration files
from my notebook machine to the new one. in the kde days i would have known
where to go to harvest these, but i've not done this, i think, with
trinity. and i've done al the reinstalls i feel like doing for awhile.
so -- is there a grand directory of trinity configurations beyond
~/.trinity?
thanks.
dep
Yes (No?)... I do know that there are things in these directories that have
recent timestamps on my machine:
~/.kde
~/.local
~/.openoffice
~/.gimp-2.8
~/.qt
~/.wine
Truthfully, I'd go whole hog and anything in your home dir starting with a .
I'd copy over. Too much shouldn't hurt. e.g.
~/.*
Best,
Michael
9:37 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] grand ~/ repository of trinity configurations?
On June 27, 2018 5:09 PM, Michael <mb_trinity_desktop(a)inet-design.com> wrote:
Yes (No?)... I do know that there are things in these
directories that have
recent timestamps on my machine:
~/.kde
~/.local
~/.openoffice
~/.gimp-2.8
~/.qt
~/.wine
Truthfully, I'd go whole hog and anything in your home dir starting with a .
I'd copy over. Too much shouldn't hurt. e.g.
~/.*
Thanks very much. Problem with that is that I have a lot of ~/. directories that are for
stuff i haven't used for years. If I were a tidier fellow -- or if our package
managers were a little more fastidious about pointing out configurations for which there
are no longer programs, the stuff leftover when we do remove but not purge, or don't
install the new versions when we upgrade distributions, the way dead links are made
apparent -- it would be a good approach.
Though actually, i'm starting to have a good time setting this up, so maybe copying
stuff over won't be necessary. TDE looks spactacular on a 1920x1200 screen that's
only seven inches diagonal (though it looks bigger to me -- and nobody make any of the
obvious jokes, okay?). It took a few weeks using the Gemini to make me appreciate a really
good tiny computer. and what's cool is that though I don't use it much touch works
on this, even with TDE. (For fine work there's the pointing nub.) The thing is like if
a Thinkpad made sweet, sweet (though unprotected) love with a MacBook and this is what
resulted.
And to think, it all started when I asked here if there were a decent Linux tablet,
because I was annoyed with Apple. This thing costs about the same as an iPod with the same
amount of storage, but it's a world better, imho.And much smaller.
28 Jun
28 Jun
2:26 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] grand ~/ repository of trinity configurations?
On Wednesday 27 June 2018 14:37:14 dep wrote:
That's big enough to satisfy most people.
:->
On June 27, 2018 5:09 PM, Michael
<mb_trinity_desktop(a)inet-design.com>
wrote:
Yes (No?)... I
do know that there are things in these directories that
have
recent timestamps on my machine:
~/.kde
~/.local
~/.openoffice
~/.gimp-2.8
~/.qt
~/.wine
Truthfully, I'd go whole hog and anything in your home dir starting with
a .
I'd copy over. Too much shouldn't hurt. e.g.
~/.*
Thanks very much. Problem with that is that I have a lot of ~/. directories
that are for stuff i haven't used for years. If I were a tidier fellow --
or if our package managers were a little more fastidious about pointing out
configurations for which there are no longer programs, the stuff leftover
when we do remove but not purge, or don't install the new versions when we
upgrade distributions, the way dead links are made apparent -- it would be
a good approach.
Though actually, i'm starting to have a good time setting this up, so maybe
copying stuff over won't be necessary. TDE looks spactacular on a 1920x1200
screen that's only seven inches diagonal (though it looks bigger to me --
and nobody make any of the obvious jokes, okay?). It took a few weeks using
the Gemini to make me appreciate a really good tiny computer. and what's
cool is that though I don't use it much touch works on this, even with TDE.
(For fine work there's the pointing nub.) The thing is like if a Thinkpad
made sweet, sweet (though unprotected) love with a MacBook and this is what
resulted.
And to think, it all started when I asked here if there were a decent Linux
tablet, because I was annoyed with Apple. This thing costs about the same
as an iPod with the same amount of storage, but it's a world better,
imho.And much smaller.
I am big for backing up EVERYTHING, including old stuff, because sometimes the
old stuff comes back in some new renamed form, and you can reuse your
settings. (For example, KDE becomes TDE....)
If you have an external hard drive, I would back up everything to somewhere on
that:
sudo cp -r -v -f /home/~/* -t /media/~/backup/
and then you can harvest what you want later, but nothing is lost. Or (as
somebody else suggested), just copy the config files, if you have nothing
else of value in your home directory;
sudo cp -r -v -f /home/~/* -t /media/~/backup/
Bill
5:51 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] grand ~/ repository of trinity configurations?
Am Mittwoch, 27. Juni 2018 schrieb Michael:
On Wednesday 27 June 2018 03:51:19 pm dep wrote:
.kde could be used from tde if an old KDE installation was migrated to TDE. Finding the
affected applications is not so hard. Or you have KDE programs. Same for the rest, noneis
TDE specific.
today's question to which i should already
have the answer but it's been a
long time . . .
rathet than continue to struggle through trying to configure everything on
the little pocket machine, seems worthwhile to copy the configuration files
from my notebook machine to the new one. in the kde days i would have known
where to go to harvest these, but i've not done this, i think, with
trinity. and i've done al the reinstalls i feel like doing for awhile.
so -- is there a grand directory of trinity configurations beyond
~/.trinity?
thanks.
dep
Yes (No?)... I do know that there are things in these directories that have
recent timestamps on my machine:
~/.kde
~/.local
~/.openoffice
~/.gimp-2.8
~/.qt
~/.wine
Truthfully, I'd go whole hog and anything in your home dir starting with a .
I'd copy over. Too much shouldn't hurt. e.g.
~/.*
Best,
Michael
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