Fine tuning xfce4?

Question

Debian

Hello Lord!
Came to you from sources.ru. It got a bit sad there.
About a month ago, I decided to abandon Windows and completely crawl to Linux. Very big problems were not expected, because. I have been working with Linux Terminal (Debian) for a long time.
XFCE4 was chosen for its lightness, and I liked it better than KDE.
In general, I set it up, but there were subtleties.
I'll try to state my wishes:
1. Is it possible to configure XFCE4 so that it remembers the selected layout (language) for each application. As in Windows. It looks like KDE can do that too. Those. so that the layout switching is distributed only to the active application, and not to the entire system as a whole.
2. Whether it is possible, with the least losses, to clear the directory of the user from "trash"? By junk, I mean all the user settings that are clogged with /home/user. This is a disgrace! Each program considers it its duty to litter. It would be nice if there was one extra directory, like: /home/user/.Settings, in which everyone would throw off their settings, but no. They mess up directly in /home/user. I would very much like to put all this rubbish in a separate directory.
3. Autoselect line. For example in a browser. I poked the mouse in the address line and it completely stood out. Also, it would not hurt that this would happen in the same way in the file manager.
4. Change the behavior of Shift+1,....,9 on the secondary keyboard when NumLock is disabled. For a mysterious reason, when Shift is pressed, the secondary keyboard works like a numeric keypad. For me, this is very inconvenient. I'm used to using the additional keyboard as a command keyboard, not a numeric one.
5. Teach the clipboard to work correctly (Clipman). It's certainly great that he keeps a few selections, but he also lives his own life. It happens that Ctrl+Ins passes by. This doesn't happen often, but it does happen. And the worst thing: often he remembers the selection, puts the last one in the first place, but ... takes the selection from the second position. It is possible that Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V work correctly, but I'm used to Ctrl+Ins, Shift+Ins. I can no longer be retrained.
Actually, these are the main points that prevent me from working.
Oh yes! I haven't abandoned Windows completely. Left to play. All the same, Wine is not the most convenient "not an emulator".

Answer 1

1. By default, the system layout switch is used, which does not depend on DE in principle. I would say "and that's good", but you can, if you like, put a "layout indicator" applet on the panel, it seems to have the ability to divide layouts into windows. Well, it will be clearer for an indicator unusual for ScrollLock.
2. Press Ctrl-H and do not make people and yourself a head. Than to you rested the directory of the user? If you want a neatly clean directory, create it in the user's directory and use it. It is not necessary to look into /home/user at all.
3. There is special magic here - F6 in the browser and Ctrl-L in the file manager. By the way, one of the weak points in Xfce is Thunar. It used to be replaced by Nautilus, now by PCManFM. Two panels and some nice touches.
4. As far as I understand, your "mysterious reason" is called the standard. If you want hot keys from the numpad - you have at your disposal Ctrl, Alt and Super, as well as their combinations, including those with Shift.
5. I won’t tell you here, I have never used a multibuffer. If something really needs to be kept recorded, there's the Notes applet.

Answer 2

1. EMNIP out of the box in the keyboard settings
2. No. The path to the configs is created by programmers when creating applications. In rare cases, it is possible to tell the program in its settings where to store the configs. But in 99% of cases this setting is not there.
3. Chrome in Linux and under windows is no different. Unless scrolling and fonts are much nicer under the windows.
4. Learn to program and write your own tool, or fork an existing application and add the required functionality, again, the ability to program a must-have.
5. Learn to program and write your own tool, or fork an existing application and add the required functionality, again, the ability to program a must-have.
Then the whole idea is for nothing. If for study, then it's easier to put the penguin in a virtual machine, install guest additions and not worry. Well, judging by everything written, I can assume that you will not be comfortable in Linux, especially in terms of software. Most software for Linux compared to Windows proprietary, crooked amateur crafts that have not been updated for years and in which you constantly need to overcome bugs and incompatibility with common file formats (PSD, DOCX, etc. Microsoft and Adobe proprietary, which are de facto world standards) .

Answer 3

2. By and large, you can collect everything from the sources and indicate where to get the configs, but this is too long and dreary way. The game is not worth the candle.
3. I did not use Chrome in Windows either.
4.5 Why not propose a rewrite of Linux? Or at least xfce?