On Oct 13, 2024, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 10/13/2024 04:57 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 12, 2024 at 08:27:55AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > It has been my habit since days of Squeeze to install the new Debian to a > > > fresh fresh partition and then use Grub to chose which version for a > > > particular session. > > > > > > I have two what might loosely be described as configuration questions. > > > > > > 1. I have 2 Panels of icons for launching tools/applications at the > > > top of my display. Are they inventoried anywhere? I want a "check > > > sheet" to verify I effectively have the same flexibility on my new > > > system. > > > > > > > Which desktop on Debian 9? > > MATE > > > > > Just a preferred arrangement? Write down what the arrangement is and > > reimplement it for yourself once you've installed 12? > > Essentially what I'm doing ;} > It's inefficient. > Debian "knows" and can reproduce icons on an apparently arbitrary > number if panels. The information is stored somewhere. > Where?
By "Panel", you mean the actual panel/taskbar, right?
That's *PROBABLY* buried somewhere in gtk settings somewhere
(necessitating, oh what is it ... gconf-editor ... to dump out?)
Granted, Debian 9-12 might represent sufficient time such that changes
to GTK mean you cannot simply dump from one and load to the other.
> [...]
>
> The system has a "default" icon size and if you only manually place
> files in the Desktop folder what is visually displayed is a regular
> grid on non-overlapping icons.
>
> At a minimum I want is when manual moving icons they snap to a location on
> THAT grid spacing.
> What actually happens is they are placed at the *precise* pixel
> location you "chose" :{
As I recall (read: poorly ;) ); this is an option in the desktop's
context menu to "snap to grid".
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