Re: I'm not a robot.
Posted: 24. Sep 2022, 01:10
Well done for ditching Windows. It will be one of the best decisions you ever made.
The system does not keep track of what you installed manually from third-party sources - that's your responsibility. However most of third-party software is installed either at /opt (usually "large" software installed as root), or at ~/.local/share (for software you installed without root privileges). The installer you used for each specific external software should tell you where it is about to be installed, but those two directories are the most common ones.
Typically, uninstalled software leaves only your configuration files behind. You should find those either at your home directory or, more often, at a specific subdirectory, namely ~/.config. For example, if you installed "rosegarden" and then decided you don't need it anymore, uninstalling it will leave your own settings for this application at ~/.config/rosegardenmusic. Those can be either backed up in case you will need them in the future, or they can be safely deleted otherwise. There is no registry to be polluted with leftovers.
In a typical setup you just need to backup parts of your home directory, most importantly ~/.config (this includes XFCE settings). But again, you might want to backup the other directories I mentioned above. Backing up is pretty easy with the default file manager (Thunar). Just right-click on the directory you are interested, then pick "Create Archive". Or you can start getting used to the mighty command line and just type in a terminal something like:ponzu wrote: ↑5. Oct 2022, 08:273 - How to backup? Let me explain: since I can't use VMs and live testing is not really optimal as this laptop kinda sucks, if I were to install another distro but then come back to Salix, is it possible to back up my configs for the programs I like and the Xfce settings?
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tar -cvzf backup.tgz ~/.config
I have done what you did but installed 32-bit Slackware, and everything. So it starts up into Plasma, but I don't care anymore because in no other penguin that carries that D.E. I could disable unwanted touchpad response especially scrolling. Sometimes though when I start Slackware it disables the touchpad, and I had disabled "gpm"...ponzu wrote: ↑26. Oct 2022, 20:32 Sorry for the late reply but thank you all for taking the time to explain things to me. 8-)
I've also been trying out Slackware 15 on another (still crappy) laptop and truth be told, I'm liking it a whole lot. ...
Also no matter how many times I run xwmconfig to make XFCE or anything else my desktop of choice, it always boots into KDE and that is kinda annoying because, well, KDE sucks.
This reminded me of something! I had tried to install Slackware 64-bit with XFCE and this Network Manager was missing! Probably forgot to select it or something. Yeah but I had to tell the "setup" to install "everything" (including KDE Plasma) on the second attempt...
You are right, vanilla Slackware, Void, FreeBSD (and probably others) come with a "bare-bones" XFCE desktop by default. However, I don't think they do that because they are lazy, they just prefer not to customize applications in general. I am not sure default XFCE setup looks that bad either.
Truth to be told, XFCE is highly customizable - just not as "easily" as others. Instead of clicking on GUIs, you just have to edit some text files.miredia wrote: ↑29. Oct 2022, 23:49I don't promote one D.E. over another. I wish XFCE were more configurable. Salix doesn't preserve the screen brightness so when I boot into it, it always sets to brightest which zaps my eyes.
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xrandr --prop | grep "connected"
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LVDS-1 connected primary 1024x600+0+0 ...
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xrandr --output LVDS-1 -- brightness 0.5