This one does not have elogind or consolekit or turnstile. Just seatd and some elogind libraries. No display manager. I think you could remove some of those libraries if you removed the lxqt packages.
https://get.refracta.org/files/experime … 4_1517.iso

The turnstile iso has turnstile for user services. It's only used for pipewire in the iso you used. Turnstile uses the script in ~/.user_session.d

Did you revert to using only alsa for audio after removing turnstile?

Booting a usb in uefi mode varies depending on the motherboard. I usually bring up the boot device menu to boot from usb, and some motherboards give a choice of booting it either way. The devuan-live isos when imaged to a usb stick (using dd or cat) should boot whichever way the bios is set to boot the hard disk, but that doesn't always work out. Again, that depends on how the motherboard implements uefi (i.e. how it deviates from standards.)

A simpler way to install to the removable media path is to edit /etc/refractainstaller.conf to uncomment the media_opt line.

# UEFI Removable Media Path
# Uncomment to force installation to the removable media path also.
# This option is only available on EFI.
# Default is commented out.

#media_opt="--force-extra-removable"

It's easier with freia. You don't need backports. I'm looking at my freia now and a few packages are newer than what I posted in July. I think the instructions for the sources say to use "testing". Follow NexuSfan's instructions.

Here: https://github.com/xlibre-debian/devuan/

Installing yt-dlp from the repo is pointless since every version stops working after a short time due to youtube's efforts to stop yt-dlp from working. That's probably why the maintainer doesn't bother to update it.

This page has some helpful information -
https://vidkraken.com/blog/yt-dlp-403-forbidden

As root:

dpkg-reconfigure console-setup

But on my own system I see that the larger font sizes don't work with the nvidia driver. If I reboot to a system that uses nouveau, I can get those larger fonts. (The ones that say "framebuffer only".)

On the screen in the setup where you can select Terminus, scroll down below VGA it says something like "Don't change the boot font." That might let you keep the initial font that you see when booting.

Another possibility is to boot with "nomodeset" in the boot command. If I do that, the font does not change during boot. But for some people, that causes booting to black screen. I think it depends on which card and/or which version of the driver you're using.

Install fontsnaps and either use the .desktop files for smaller or larger desktop fonts or in a terminal run adjfontsize + or adjfontsize - to go bigger or smaller. This only works in xfce.

In case it's not obvious to anyone reading this thread, I just want to mention that instead of a netinstall iso, you could use the server or desktop installer isos to do a complete install without a network mirror. That might make it easier for anyone with a laptop that only has wireless networking.

Turning off lightdm and using startx doesn't help. I still get the wall message on a console where I'm logged in but not in the desktop terminal.

Not sure if this helps. From 'man wall'

5) Here's an excalibur desktop-live iso with the backports kernel (7.1.3)
https://get.refracta.org/files/experime … 8_2304.iso

sha256sum
https://get.refracta.org/files/experime … iso.sha256

3eee6699e8a6c4e5cd1209376b7943678bf973cea571732ac96c7ed3d50f18ec  excalibur_nonfree_bpo_7.1.3-20260728_2304.iso

No, I don't. But I'm guessing you do. I'll also guess that changes in the kernel and initramfs compression are what bit you. Use a newer version of refractasnapshot and it should work. (again, a guess because I don't really know what you're trying to do.) There might be more information in /var/log/refractasnapshot.log.

Try these:
https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/poo … .3_all.deb
https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/poo … .1_all.deb

There's mousepad, which I don't use. There's also featherpad if you don't mind pulling in a few qt libraries. I use geany most of the time. Maybe one of those will work.