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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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
On June 27, 2018 5:09 PM, Michael mb_trinity_desktop@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.
On Wednesday 27 June 2018 14:37:14 dep wrote:
On June 27, 2018 5:09 PM, Michael mb_trinity_desktop@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?).
That's big enough to satisfy most people. :->
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
Am Mittwoch, 27. Juni 2018 schrieb Michael:
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
.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.
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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