Just an init system that might be to your liking to replace sysv: https://github.com/HashTagLinux/velocity-init

Omarchy's desktop shell, running on X11 + i3 + Debian/Devuan. No Wayland. No Hyprland. No systemd.

It's been my daily driver for weeks. Here it is with a few community plugins ported over.

Hi everyone I have considered installing Devuan soon will migrate from Debian ! but I need to know if dwl is available ? I am very into suckless its a big must. I really hope you guys could clarify that too me. I already got the info about disk encryption so that is checked marked. now I just need to know about dwl wm. I would really appreciate it.

i just switched from artix openrc to devuan openrc :3
just because i wanted to try the nala package manager and i refuse to use systemd lmao

i tried to install artix again but it failed so im have to currently find another thing to install that isnt systemd i heard some good stuff about devuan but ive also never used a debian system the only main issue is nvidia drivers, how good are they on devuan?

Gerenciador gráfico de temas para XFCE: GTK, ícones, wallpaper, Rofi e Mousepad — com suporte a coleções (perfis) que aplicam tudo de uma vez.

Recursos

• Lista e aplica temas GTK, de ícones, Rofi e Mousepad.
• Navega e aplica wallpapers com miniaturas, pré-visualização e integração com o cache de miniaturas padrão do sistema (compartilhado com Thunar/Tumbler).
• Salva coleções: combinações de temas que podem ser editadas e aplicadas com um clique.
• Busca/filtro dinâmico em cada lista de temas.
• Pastas extras para cada tipo de tema, além das padrões do sistema (suporta diretórios personalizados adicionados pelo usuário).
• Interface em Português (Brasil) e English, com detecção automática do idioma do sistema através da cadeia do GLib.
• Estilo de Janela Configurável: Opção para usar a barra de cabeçalho integrada (CSD) ou a barra de título nativa do XFCE (xfwm4).
• Suporte a atalhos de teclado integrados (Ctrl+, para Configurações, Ctrl+F para buscar e Ctrl+Q para sair).
• Notificações de ações (toast) integradas não-bloqueantes para confirmações de aplicação.

Dependências

• Python 3
• GTK 3 + PyGObject (python3-gi)
• xfconf-query (XFCE)
• xfdesktop em execução (necessário para aplicar wallpapers)
• gsettings (opcional, para o tema do Mousepad)

Uso

python3 app.py

Configurações:

• Geral: Idioma (automático, Português ou English) e estilo da barra de título da janela.
• Pastas: Gerenciamento das pastas extras escaneadas para wallpaper, GTK, ícones, Rofi e Mousepad.
• Sobre: Versão do aplicativo (2.1), créditos ao desenvolvedor (Mateus Calixto) e detalhes da Licença (MIT).

Onde os temas são buscados e aplicados

Configuração

O aplicativo salva em ~/.config/xfce-theme-manager/config.json de forma atômica. Este arquivo armazena:

• Idioma e pastas extras.
• Preferência de barra de título (nativa ou header).
• O tamanho exato (largura e altura) da janela para uso futuro.
• As coleções cadastradas.

Licença

MIT

Releases

2.2

(Had to retake image to remove personal info)

On this old laptop I had Arch Linux, but using it little I couldn't update often, so I decided to switch to a stable solution like Debian but without systemd.

Anyways, I was bored yesterday, and I decided to distrohop to Devuan.

Just did a netinstall of Devuan last night so I could customize it to what I wanted. It did not go without issues.

The first issue was with sound. I believe Alsa took my HDMI output as the primary audio and I had to configure alsa to use my mother's integrated Starship/Matisse HD Audio controller. I believe it was card 1, device 0. I created an /etc/asound.conf file to select this as:

defaults.pcm.card 1
defaults.ctl.card 1
defaults.pcm.device 0
defaults.ctl.device 0

I don't know if that's right or not -- the alsa documention is not great. It got alsa working but as soon as I added Pipewire, it stopped. I eventually just gave up on Pipewire and installed the PulseAudio stuff and it worked immediately. So fine for now.

The second issue was with an NFS mount. I suspect that this is because of the runit init system. So I ended up creating a script to run under runit as a service

#!/bin/sh
sleep 5
echo "Mounting network filesystems..."
mount -a -t nfs
exec chpst -b netmount pause

This didn't fix the issue. That's when I noticed that even running a mount -a under sudo was not working. The client was loaded but the /etc/fstab syntax has apparently changed a bit. I had the type as nfs4 rather than just nfs so changed the fstab and the runit script so that nfs4 was not a target. This seemed to fix the issue so am not sure if the runit service was necessary now. Things are working so I'm not changing it.

I then had to add backports since they are a pre-req for Xlibre. That went fine. I then added an xlibre-debian.sources file to /etc/apt/sources.list and installed Xlibre. That also seemed fine but I think it required a reboot for it to take effect. I then ran fastfetch and it still showed X11. It turns out that I needed a newer version of fastfetch than what was in the repo to detect it. I downloaded the deb file directly from the app's site and installed it and then it detected Xlibre without issue.

The next thing I did was install the newest kernel that was in the backports repo which was 7.1.8. I didn't have to but why not. So now I'm on the MATE desktop 1.26.2 on Debian Stable with a new kernel and runit as my init system. The only other thing I did from a system perspective was add waterfox to the apt sources.

I did have to create a udev rule for my scanner for it to be detected by members of the scanner group.

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="04a9", ATTR{idProduct}=="1905", MODE="0664", GROUP="scanner"

And then had to add a package called system-config-printer from the repository since there was nothing to do with printing in the MATE control center. This added Print Settings.

I added OpenVPN and Remmina for remote work access without any issues. I added a couple of more apps from the repo (celluloid) and gtkhash/caja-gtkhash but most everything after that was common shared appimages. So this will be my new "stable" system. I have Neko-Void (which also uses runit+MATE+Xlibre) as my rolling distro.

I tried installing Devuan on my SSD but it constantly got stuck on blue screen each time I tried.

Omarchy is gorgeous but it's Hyprland-only, and I wasn't leaving i3. So I ported the whole shell: Quickshell bar, theme engine, launcher, popups, and the omarchy-* CLI, to Debian/Devuan + X11/XLibre.

Website: https://omaxian.org

Repo: https://github.com/aozora/omaxian

hi. niri is my favorite window manager. is there anyone using it here? and what is the experience?

I think it's just a matter of my search engine skills being weak but I want to set devuan to always update to the newest realtime kernel.

I guess, specifically, when I type sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade and there's a kernel update, then it will grab the preempt kernel instead of the standard.

BcalcOS Linux

A new linux distribution because there are so few of them. /s

Brief discussion of why.
https://www.bcalcos.org/whypage

Tech Highlights
intentionally only 1 version

• Devuan based
• XLibre
• sysvinit
• SLiM
• Xcfe

additional details https://www.bcalcos.org/techpage

Unique vs Base Devuan
for this Alpha Release

• XLibre default
• Brave Origin is only offered browser
• UFW (enabled)
• ClamAV (installed only for manual runs)
• branding colors and fonts
• custom scripts
  • daily update notifications
  • weekly fstrim run
  • GUI wrapper for Marp
  • wireguard start at boot (not enabled)
  • font hide - hides several "extra" fonts
  • fastfetch cool quail image
  • sanitize the Refracta ISO before final production
• custom applications
  • distribution installer (more below)
  • Welcome Center for new Linux users to help install/ remove curated applications as well as run updates or create new users
  • Quail Calc which is a basic calculator written in C++ (it works only because an LLM intervened and ignored my first pass)

The distribution installer was frustrating.
For some reason, I could not get BcalcOS using Refractainstaller or Devuan (live-boot version) to install on 1 of my test machines without a manual workaround. Since I only have 2 that was a 50% failure rate, ha. I wasted an entire day messing around with it before giving up and building a custom installer.
It is fairly rigid in that you only select the target disk and provide your timezone, user name, and user password. That's it. The application determines the typical user choices of boot method, partition structure, partition sizes, language, and keyboard.
I suppose one positive aspect is that a new Linux user should be able to easily install the distribution.

**Alpha Release - for secondary machines only**

Installation instructions are here:
https://www.bcalcos.org/installpage

The ISO is here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/bcalcos-linux/files/

Github is here although pretty sparse at the moment:
https://github.com/briancalc/bcalcos
I'll add removal steps for the customized scripts.

Roadmap
: open to constructive ideas
: work on the custom installer to allow more user options as in for a penny, in for a pound
: add applications and/or functions to the Welcome Center. Documentation mentions being Flatpak ready but I may remove. While I'm not anti-flatpak, I try to avoid them.

I am really fascinated by the devuan, because it has a lot of packages and support. So how is it to be on unstable version of devuan? Is it like on arch, but without pacman and aur? or is it like on ubuntu?