Re: top bar the way I want it
On 1/20/24 13:05, Maureen L Thomas wrote: On 1/20/24 1:46 AM, David Christensen wrote: On 1/19/24 21:53, Maureen L Thomas wrote: I am using Gnome, and I found the stuff I needed to get my desktop the way I wanted it. I am very happy about it. Now I just have to put NordVPN to connect with my browser. Thank you for the help, it is greatly appreciated. I am glad it worked out for you. :-) Part of participating in an Internet mailing list like debian-user is posting the solution to your question, so that other people can benefit. Please document your solution. > > The package that held the chanages I wanted was called Extension Manager > and Extensions. That file gave me options for the top bar and the > bottom bar. Hope this helps. Thank you. :-) Post your solutions is a good habit. In the future, you may run into the same problem, STFW for a solution, and find your previous post! David
Re: top bar the way I want it
The package that held the chanages I wanted was called Extension Manager and Extensions. That file gave me options for the top bar and the bottom bar. Hope this helps. On 1/20/24 1:46 AM, David Christensen wrote: On 1/19/24 21:53, Maureen L Thomas wrote: I am using Gnome, and I found the stuff I needed to get my desktop the way I wanted it. I am very happy about it. Now I just have to put NordVPN to connect with my browser. Thank you for the help, it is greatly appreciated. I am glad it worked out for you. :-) Part of participating in an Internet mailing list like debian-user is posting the solution to your question, so that other people can benefit. Please document your solution. David
Re: top bar the way I want it
On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 12:53:22AM -0500, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > ... and I found the stuff I needed to get my desktop > the way I wanted it. I am very happy about it. Nice. Thanks for reporting back. > Now I just have to ... with my ... Yeah, right. > Thank you for the help, it is greatly appreciated. Good ways to express appreciation is by actual meeting the people. On mailinglists does mean meeting them half way, meet on common ground. Think "help those from whom you want help". For starters a Subject line that matches message body content. Good subject lines are a huge help with "What is it about?". Good subject lines also transmit "I have put effort in composing my email, you are invited to put in further effort". And yes, bad subject lines transmit "Minimal effort from my side, expecting minimal effort from your side" also "Here laziness, tell me what I can buy with it". The real challenge goes inside the email. Aim for "very good", settle for "good", stay away from "good enough" for others and stay away for "perfect" for yourself. Go for "interresting for all", avoid "I have a problem and you must help me". Ahd there is another import thing. Understand "world wide", understand the concept of time zones. People on this mailinglist are from across the globe, so from different time zones by definition. It means seeing much emails that were written while you were sleeping, it means you will be writing email for some that are sleeping. Do NOT assume that recievers does know what preciously has been written, so do not top post. Reply below precious text. Make it possible that your audience can read in the discussion order. When I see "top post", I think "the life form does not know to whom they are writing". And wonder "What else are they missing?". Groeten Geert Stappers -- Silence is hard to parse
Re: top bar the way I want it
On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 9:12 AM Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > And, of course, write notes to yourself for EVERY change like this, so > you can remember how you did it. I actually have a quarterly reminder for myself to review my various systems and take notes on changes. Installed packages, make sure config files are captured in source control, was I running any A/B experiments to see if I like a new font better than the old one, etc. While most of this I do as I go along, I find having a regular true-up is useful to make sure I didn't miss anything. This applies to my computers, phones, car gadgets, kitchen layout, etc. mrc
Re: top bar the way I want it
On Sat, 20 Jan 2024, at 05:53, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > I am using Gnome, and I found the stuff I needed to get my desktop the > way I wanted it. It might be sensible to screenshot the setup you like. If you have similar problems in future it would help enormously to be able to show people the layout you like vv the one you get immediately after a reinstall. And, of course, write notes to yourself for EVERY change like this, so you can remember how you did it. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.
Re: top bar the way I want it
On 1/19/24 21:53, Maureen L Thomas wrote: I am using Gnome, and I found the stuff I needed to get my desktop the way I wanted it. I am very happy about it. Now I just have to put NordVPN to connect with my browser. Thank you for the help, it is greatly appreciated. I am glad it worked out for you. :-) Part of participating in an Internet mailing list like debian-user is posting the solution to your question, so that other people can benefit. Please document your solution. David
Re: top bar the way I want it
I am using Gnome, and I found the stuff I needed to get my desktop the way I wanted it. I am very happy about it. Now I just have to put NordVPN to connect with my browser. Thank you for the help, it is greatly appreciated. On 1/19/24 7:17 AM, Joe wrote: On 1/18/24 1:17 AM, Beyond Insulted wrote: On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 08:40:30PM -0500, Maureen L Thomas wrote: I now have a system that works but I cannot find any utility to fix the top bar the way I want it. Any hints? Try to understand the audience that is being asked. Imaging that they were willing to help and stopped doing so because the "the way I want it" is a way too poor description. Moe Groeten Geert Stappers On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 23:02:21 -0500 Maureen L Thomas wrote: I am sorry for the way I said that. What I want is the very top bar, before I re-installed it had three topics on the very top left hand that allowed me to click on one of them and get a menu of all the software installed and in order according to the topic. Like under internet would list all the internet software. Right now I have to use that dot thing to see what is installed. It is a pain. I cannot find the utility to change the settings for the top bar or the bottom bar or the sidebar I used daily with a list of the browsers, and special software that is used daily. Again I apologize for the previous, I was very uptight over my inability to remember what I need to do. We cannot all recollect all that has gone before. There is very large flexibility as to the Linux display. There are four major desktop environments and several derivatives of them. Some people don't use a DE at all, just a window manager. I use Xfce4 and its own panels, with one panel to the top left and one panel top right, with a third tiny panel just containing an analogue clock. Most configuration can be achieved by right-clicking on a panel then Panel-> Panel Preferences. The size, position and number of panels can be controlled in that way. Launchers can be added to panels, and applications can be added to launchers. Mostly one launcher contains one application. I don't know what display configuration you have, but a good start is to right-click on whatever bars you have, and explore the menus. The main application menu can pretty much always be opened by right-clicking on an empty part of the desktop and choosing Applications. This set of menus, grouped as you say be approximate function, can be edited by a couple of applications, one of which is the Gnome alacarte, which I use. This is not normally installed by default on Debian, but can be installed in the usual way. If you don't already have Gnome or some of its applications, it will probably bring in a distressing list of dependencies. Let us know more about what desktop environment you use, and we can probably give better advice. Unfortunately, while reinstalling can fix many problems fairly easily, it does bring with it the need to rebuild the configurations of many things.
Re: top bar the way I want it
On 1/18/24 1:17 AM, Beyond Insulted wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 08:40:30PM -0500, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > >> I now have a system that works but I cannot find any > >> utility to fix the top bar the way I want it. Any hints? > > Try to understand the audience that is being asked. > > > > Imaging that they were willing to help and stopped doing so > > because the "the way I want it" is a way too poor description. > > > > > >> Moe > > > > Groeten > > Geert Stappers On Thu, 18 Jan 2024 23:02:21 -0500 Maureen L Thomas wrote: > I am sorry for the way I said that. What I want is the very top bar, > before I re-installed it had three topics on the very top left hand > that allowed me to click on one of them and get a menu of all the > software installed and in order according to the topic. Like under > internet would list all the internet software. Right now I have to > use that dot thing to see what is installed. It is a pain. I cannot > find the utility to change the settings for the top bar or the bottom > bar or the sidebar I used daily with a list of the browsers, and > special software that is used daily. Again I apologize for the > previous, I was very uptight over my inability to remember what I > need to do. > We cannot all recollect all that has gone before. There is very large flexibility as to the Linux display. There are four major desktop environments and several derivatives of them. Some people don't use a DE at all, just a window manager. I use Xfce4 and its own panels, with one panel to the top left and one panel top right, with a third tiny panel just containing an analogue clock. Most configuration can be achieved by right-clicking on a panel then Panel-> Panel Preferences. The size, position and number of panels can be controlled in that way. Launchers can be added to panels, and applications can be added to launchers. Mostly one launcher contains one application. I don't know what display configuration you have, but a good start is to right-click on whatever bars you have, and explore the menus. The main application menu can pretty much always be opened by right-clicking on an empty part of the desktop and choosing Applications. This set of menus, grouped as you say be approximate function, can be edited by a couple of applications, one of which is the Gnome alacarte, which I use. This is not normally installed by default on Debian, but can be installed in the usual way. If you don't already have Gnome or some of its applications, it will probably bring in a distressing list of dependencies. Let us know more about what desktop environment you use, and we can probably give better advice. Unfortunately, while reinstalling can fix many problems fairly easily, it does bring with it the need to rebuild the configurations of many things. -- Joe
Re: top bar the way I want it
I am sorry for the way I said that. What I want is the very top bar,
before I re-installed it had three topics on the very top left hand that
allowed me to click on one of them and get a menu of all the software
installed and in order according to the topic. Like under internet
would list all the internet software. Right now I have to use that dot
thing to see what is installed. It is a pain. I cannot find the utility
to change the settings for the top bar or the bottom bar or the sidebar
I used daily with a list of the browsers, and special software that is
used daily. Again I apologize for the previous, I was very uptight over
my inability to remember what I need to do.
On 1/18/24 1:17 AM, Beyond Insulted wrote:
On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 08:40:30PM -0500, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
I now have a system that works but I cannot find any utility
to fix the top bar the way I want it. Any hints?
Try to understand the audience that is being asked.
Imaging that they were willing to help and stopped doing so
because the "the way I want it" is a way too poor description.
Moe
Groeten
Geert Stappers
top bar the way I want it
On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 08:40:30PM -0500, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > I now have a system that works but I cannot find any utility > to fix the top bar the way I want it. Any hints? Try to understand the audience that is being asked. Imaging that they were willing to help and stopped doing so because the "the way I want it" is a way too poor description. > Moe Groeten Geert Stappers -- Silence is hard to parse
