On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 4:26 PM DdB <debianl...@potentially-spam.de-bruyn.de> wrote: > > 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
Answering your titular question. There are debian-kde and debian-qt-kde mailing lists. See <https://lists.debian.org/completeindex.html>. Jeff
