DdB wrote:
Am 01.06.2024 um 11:02 schrieb Andrew M.A. Cater:
You would need to go from buster - bullseye to bookworm anyway.
Read the Release Notes for Bullseye to pick up on any changes.
Do note also that Bookworm is currently supported: Bullseye security support ends round July 31st this year as Bullseye will move to LTS.
You might want to repeat the upgrade process in a couple of months
Yes, Andy, you are correct. See: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases#Production_Releases
But i cannot endorse on bookworm without finding alternatives viable to
my handicap. Does that mean, i am back to square one?
Currently, i am 6 years behind (still on debian 10), because i was not willing to lose functionality i am used to. BTW: the GNOME team did that
to me repeatedly, which makes me quite unhappy. But i am not familiar
with the other desktops, cannot estimate the difficulties associated
with their usage.
You've mentioned that you want programmable hot corners and a
pop-up menu, and in another thread, that you like to write your
own scripts.
Here is an X11-specific but not DE-specific tool to run hot
corners; it is written in bash and is eminently hackable:
https://github.com/okitavera/cornora/
The dependencies are packaged in Debian, so it's just one
script.
And here is an X11-specific but not DE-specific tool to run
menus (and several other similar things), which is easily
customizable through a config file:
apt install rofi
Finally, here is an X11-specific but not DE-specific tool to
grab a keyboard button or combination and do something else with
it, including running an application:
apt install xbindkeys
All of these work in Debian 10, 11 and 12, and I see no reason
that they should stop working in 13. If you accustom yourself to
using them now, you can change desktop environments and upgrade
to current stable without fear of losing your desired workflow.
Hope that helps.
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