> On Mar 14, 2025, at 10:40 AM, Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@???> wrote:
>
> There is "Debian blends". In a sense tails could be seen as a Debian blend customized for security, but, of course, some "security" is just one basic aspect when it comes to the functionality of a system. I use tails and Debian almost exclusively and the perfectionist in me has been "dreaming" of being able to customize and/or recompile the tails base to my needs in a win-win way from which everybody would benefit. Basically, the tails project could be just reorganized in two phases:
> 1st) "tails base": allowing for users to include their own cr@p on their own;
> 2nd) "tails": (essentially using §1st) to complete a full, final version.
>
> I could imagine other users have had their own wishes and "dreams", here is my wish list, from which most items don't relate to "security" per se or not entirely:
>
> 1) basic GUI silliness:
> * 1.1 who had the great idea of using "black on white" on terminals? ;-) (I would guess it was one of those "visual" dudes, this is the first time that I have noticed such thing);
It's not well-documented, but I believe there is a solution using the
Tails Persistent Store "Dotfiles" option. This will let you persist
whatever defaults you prefer, such as the Terminal text display color.
Set up the GNOME display the way you want, then copy this file:
~/.config/dconf/user
to here (creating directories as needed):
/live/persistence/TailsData_unlocked/dotfiles/.config/dconf/user
From then on, on each reboot there will be a symbolic link from
~/.config/dconf/user to the persistent user configuration file, where
the settings will be permanently stored.
More info:
https://tails.net/doc/persistent_storage/configure/#index13h2
https://help.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/dconf.html.en
It would probably be wise to document this as another use example in
https://tails.net/doc/persistent_storage/configure/#index13h2
--- David A. Wheeler
