Beloved debian users, After years of using GNOME (even back in my Ubuntu-days), i got fed up with the ever changing behavior, which came on top of "development politics". And since i was/am still on buster, i decided to move forward to bookworm-KDE. But i am old and slow. It really took me a month to get a sort of minimal version up and running. I call this step: proof-of-concept. Now comes the harder part: to really take control of this desktop, not like a developer, but as a user. (I am currently evaluating to make use of ansible and redo the whole setup, but in a reproducible way.)
Several issues are bugging me: 1. I can't get Window rules to work, neither for wayland nor for x11, i seem to be doing those wrong. 2. I would really like to have a clickable menu only with my own commands/scripts in it, preferably in one single file, not spread out over many. Is such a thing available? 3. Some applications are not listed by wmctrl -l as if they were not managed by the window manager, therefore i cannot move them around in my scripts (and windows rules ... i told ya) 4. True story: after just one day of living in the new environment, it crashed hard, all the open applications were gone. Could be a strange are incident, in buster, i had such a thing happen to me only about 4 times per year! Apart from the huge UI change, i also changed the root filesystem (it is zfs now, i used to have my data in it before, but this time, it is more). To achieve this, i went with zbm (zfsbootmanager) instead of grub. tbh: currently, i still use both, switching at least twice per day. And i got my VPN client working in KDE, only the iptable rules to protect me from acidental leaks (kill switch) need to be reinstalled after every boot. How to make them permanent the right way? That's it for today, any comment/hint/suggestion warmly welcome, DdB
