Various topics

Debian installation tips:

How to navigate through the Debian maze for installation media?  (As of 2022-02-01, https://www.debian.org/distrib/ is quite confusing at the top. If we were to follow the first links we may quickly get confused. Debian might increase its user base if they reorganize the links!).

I have kept two most important links for my own use: 

LiveCD+nonfree+firmware   This includes the installer too, which is not obvious if we do not press the Activities button at the top (e.g., https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-11.2.0-amd64-gnome+nonfree.iso)

netinstall-nonfree+firmware  (e..g,. https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/current/amd64/iso-cd/firmware-11.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso)


Debian wireless backport for my Dell Inspiron 15

Resolved: Debian installation has no sound. This is resolved here. The key is "apt install firmware-sof-signed"

Gnome3

Install gnome-shell-extensions, Dash to Dock via  gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock (but do not install gnome-tweak-tool which will create many problems!)

Remember to logout and login to see the effect!

"apt install gnome-shell-extensions" we will get

the built-in Window List. But to customize the Dock position, we have to go Settings -> Appearance, which is less than ideal.

The Window List is a essential to keep all the minimized windows so that we can click to recover them as quickly as possible.

Resolved: To enable a new tab when clicking on a bookmark on the toolbar in firefox

Summary: In Firefox, open a new tab. On the address space, type "about:config", accept the risks, look for browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInTabs and set it to true.

Resolved: Evince to change from the default continuous mode to non-continuous page. See this: 

Edit file /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.Evince.gschema.xml and look for they key with name continuous. Change the default to false.