Linux Lite
This posting represents a restart of my Linux Lite story. Having discovered that the distro really needed the VBoxSVGA video support instead of the default VMSVGA, I was able to normally resize all the application windows. And having discovered the GDebi package manager hidden away in a context menu, I was able to install the vivaldi.deb file I had downloaded earlier.
Why the Synaptic Package Manager is installed by default, but its features are crippled, is beyond me. At this point, I just want to move on with this experiment.
As I wrote above, I was able to install Vivaldi. First I added Lastpass so I'd be able to fetch the password for Vivaldi, and did a sync. That left my Start Page full of 55 bookmark icons, as you may have seen in earlier posts, as I do this for every distro I examine.
Note the scroll bars, and the fact that this is a VirtualBox VM window that was not at full-screen. That was necessary for me to be able to take a screen capture from the host laptop, where I'm writing this post. But the image does indicate the starting point for the next step -- a Vivaldi Start Page full of bookmark icons. And at the top is just a single tab, named "Start Page."
These Start Page bookmarks were created long ago, by simply launching all of these web sites, either by typing their addresses into Vivaldi's address bar, or by launching them from my LastPass browser extension. I arranged them in an organized way, so that from top to bottom, and left to right, they're in groups of related sites. When they were all saved to the Start Page, I did a Vivaldi sync from its Settings page, making it easy to reproduce this same Start Page on other machines, even VMs.
Now, to create some tab stacks and name them, creating a virtual web site menu at the top of the Vivaldi page. The first group of 5 bookmarks all have to do with financial matters. I'm going to load those into a tab stack, and name that tab stack "Financial." First, I'll click on the Charles Schwab bookmark in order to open that web site. The name "Charles Schwab" replaces "Start Page" in the tab above.
Next, I click the + button next to that tab to launch a second web site, and I do that by clicking the second bookmark on the page. That adds my credit union site.
This is where the creation of a tab stack begins. (Obviously, you can't have a "stack" of tabs without at least two of them.) I use the mouse pointer to slowly drag the second tab on top of the first one, noticing that at some point the bottom tab changes color. Then I release the mouse pointer and a very short tab stack has been created.
This is where it gets tricky to document this process with screen captures, because even though I'm doing these things on the VM, and taking the screen captures using Spectacle on the host machine, as soon as I try to capture an image, the second tab completes its drop onto the first tab. So without being able to create a video of what's happening, I can only show the end result of that. You'll have to trust that I did exactly what I said I did above.
Notice that a second row of tabs has now been created below the first row. The top row contains one tab stack that still has the name of the last tab that was dropped on it. (We'll change that soon.) It also has a small "2" visible, which is the number of tabs currently in that stack. The second row shows the contents of that tab stack. In other words, tabs to launch my brokerage and my credit union.
My next step is to rename that tab stack to "Financial," to indicate its purpose. I right-click on it to open a context menu in which there is an item called "Rename Tab Stack," about halfway down the menu. I click that item, which opens a text box on the tab stack where I can enter the name and press <Enter>.
Here's the result.
As previously noted, this is a very short tab stack, containing just two tabs. Next, I move down to that second line and use the + button to add the rest of the sites that are in this same category, Now it is a complete tab stack, and it looks like this.
As the small "5" in the tab stack indicates, there are now 5 tabs in this stack. As tabs are added, the color here changes to match the system color of the site that was just added. In this case, that was the Credit Karma site, and its system color is green.
Now I'll return to the top row in order to create the next tab stack containing the next 8 bookmarks from below on the Start Page. These mostly have to do with forums of one kind or another, so I'll repeat the above process to build the tab stack and name it "Forums." As these second lines get longer, it's going to be harder and harder to represent them here with screen captures, but I want to add this next stack now, so I'll just show the top line this time.
As before, this second tab stack starts with two tabs. This time, it's the Solus home page and the Solus forum page. Notice that the "Financial" tab stack is outlined with a white border, to make it clear that it's not an individual tab, but a tab stack instead.
As before, I'll drag the "Solus Forum" tab on top of the "Home | Solus" tab, and dropping it there when I see the color of the bottom tab change. That will create a new tab stack which I'll rename to "Forums." This time I'm going to add the rest of the tabs that are in this same category, and just show the result.
As you can see, there are 8 tabs in the "Forums" tab stack. I'm only showing the first three in the second row, because if I showed all 8 of them, the screen capture would be too wide to show here. Trust me, they're all there.
This Start Page contains enough categories of bookmarks to fill 8 tab stacks, which are Financial, Forums, News, Shopping, Health, Sports, Racing, and Streaming. I'm not going to detail the creation of them all, because it just follows the same pattern that I've already shown here. Next, I'm going to start another post in this thread, and use it to finish documenting this process. There's just a bit more I need to say about it.