Easy Q - Does Linux remember each window's settings individually? (like XP used to do)?
by AnneF from LinuxQuestions.org on (#59G9M)
Hello - I'm brand new - by way of introduction...
A million years ago, before I retired, I programmed on Unix machines, and was dragged kicking & screaming from DOS to Windows and now, after 20 (30?) years, I want my machine back, but I'm scared I don't have enough brain power any longer to do too much deep-diving into an OS, so I'm researching before I jump.
One simple question that I have not been able to find an answer to, is this: (1)Can I get Linux to (or does Linux "naturally") remember the last Settings: Position, Size, and Formatting of each individual folder window separately? So that if I open a particular folder, it comes up exactly as, and where, it was the last time I saw it?
And (2)if that folder window becomes buried beneath other windows, and I click that folder's icon again, will it bring that same folder window to the front again, rather than open another instance of it?
This sounds like a small thing, but the lack of this feature (since I left XP) is constantly and enormously annoying to me. I was happy with XP because I understood it - I could make it stand on it's head and whistle "Dixie", but I truly despise Win7. With every iteration, I lose more control - it's like the machine is "mine" only in the sense that I paid for it as a platform for MS to control.
Don't bury me in too much current jargon, now - because I'm old and my brain is dissolving.
Oh, one more: (3)I now use cmd line: <ipconfig /release> (/renew) to drop my IP address when I leave my office for more than a few minutes. Can I do that with Linux also?
And yet another: (4) I'm looking at Debian. I have an Epson Scanner, a Cannon Color printer, and an HP Laser Printer (all are old, like me). Will I have problems with Debian finding & installing drivers for them? What about mobo drivers? (for Lenovo ThinkCentre). (I may be building a new (Intel) machine, unless you can recommend a good pre-built Linux machine?)
Thank you for helping me out - starting with something brand new makes a little old lady feel a bit stupid.
--Anne
I will try to be more succinct from now on.
A million years ago, before I retired, I programmed on Unix machines, and was dragged kicking & screaming from DOS to Windows and now, after 20 (30?) years, I want my machine back, but I'm scared I don't have enough brain power any longer to do too much deep-diving into an OS, so I'm researching before I jump.
One simple question that I have not been able to find an answer to, is this: (1)Can I get Linux to (or does Linux "naturally") remember the last Settings: Position, Size, and Formatting of each individual folder window separately? So that if I open a particular folder, it comes up exactly as, and where, it was the last time I saw it?
And (2)if that folder window becomes buried beneath other windows, and I click that folder's icon again, will it bring that same folder window to the front again, rather than open another instance of it?
This sounds like a small thing, but the lack of this feature (since I left XP) is constantly and enormously annoying to me. I was happy with XP because I understood it - I could make it stand on it's head and whistle "Dixie", but I truly despise Win7. With every iteration, I lose more control - it's like the machine is "mine" only in the sense that I paid for it as a platform for MS to control.
Don't bury me in too much current jargon, now - because I'm old and my brain is dissolving.
Oh, one more: (3)I now use cmd line: <ipconfig /release> (/renew) to drop my IP address when I leave my office for more than a few minutes. Can I do that with Linux also?
And yet another: (4) I'm looking at Debian. I have an Epson Scanner, a Cannon Color printer, and an HP Laser Printer (all are old, like me). Will I have problems with Debian finding & installing drivers for them? What about mobo drivers? (for Lenovo ThinkCentre). (I may be building a new (Intel) machine, unless you can recommend a good pre-built Linux machine?)
Thank you for helping me out - starting with something brand new makes a little old lady feel a bit stupid.
--Anne
I will try to be more succinct from now on.