The first line with XIKeyClass on my desktop is my mouse. On the laptop, it's Virtual Core Keyboard.

⎜   ↳ Logitech USB Receiver                     id=11   [slave  pointer  (2)]
        Reporting 6 classes:
                Class originated from: 11. Type: XIButtonClass
                Buttons supported: 7
                Button labels: "Button 0" "Button Unknown" "Button Unknown" "Button Wheel Up" "Button Wheel Do
wn" "Button Horiz Wheel Left" "Button Horiz Wheel Right"
                Button state:
                Class originated from: 11. Type: XIKeyClass

   not quite. That way leaves white space at the end. Maybe add another sed that removes the white space. (not sure if it's a tab or several spaces.)

$ echo "$keyboard_id"
10

$echo "$keyboard_id"x
10     x

setxkbmap

Thanks! I forgot about that one. It works instantly.

Also, I mis-reported one thing above. After killing the desktop with alt-sysrq-k, the change in keyboard-configuration took effect, and I got the us keyboard.

I didn't get to try the installer but hope to do that some time. Too much other stuff to do now. If anyone else tries it, please let me know.

I tried the avmultimini.iso. Thanks for putting that up. Here are some notes you might find useful.

I can get it to boot in qemu (with kvm) in legacy bios mode with 'eno' boot code. If I try uefi mode, it hangs on the archivista splash screen. The vertical size of the window increases to 2-3 times normal height, and I have to resize the window to see the bottom of the screen. After a few minutes of this, the cpu starts to get hot.

I can't get it to boot in virtualbox. Tried uefi and legacy bios.

It boots normally from usb. Booted it in legacy bios mode with 'eno' boot code.

The language was English except for kodi, which came up in German.

Changing the keyboard layout presented some problems. First I tried 'dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration'. I wanted to log out and in again to get it to take effect, but there's no way to log out of the desktop. I tried 'init 1' and nothing happened. I finally tried alt-sysrq-k and was able to restart the desktop. Keyboard was still German. This was especially frustrating for me because it made it impossible to do some things in the terminal.

Then I went into the desktop settings and found the keyboard layout settings. The drop-down menu for countries goes off-screen, and I can't scroll down.

I did not have any problems with the display orientation. The buttons on the panel work and are very cool. That's the first time I've ever been able to rotate the screen. (I don't need it, but I have tried it out of curiosity. Nice to see it finally work.)

It was also nice to see the pulseaudio volume control work. I haven't had good luck with that in the past.

Getting it to run in virtualbox or qemu is probably not essential to using it, but a lot of people like to test new isos in a virtual environment, for convenience.

Me too. It shouldn't work unless you're running it as root. When I split that up into two functions, I had it record the exit code of 'apt-get update', and while it kept running at the expected interval, it spit out an error code every time.

Also stumped by the inability to find sudo. Maybe the quoting needs to be changed?  "sudo $command" instead of 'sudo "$command"' with or without the full path. (grasping at straws here.)

Add set -x to the top of the script and run it from terminal. You'll get output for every command. I checked, and they didn't move sudo. It's still in /usr/bin. I want to see where this is screwing up.

Figure out where the proxy settings are stored, and we can probably adjust the snapshot excludes file to keep them.

Synaptic could be a Recommends instead of a Depends. Those who install without Recommends are likely to have xterm installed. That could be a Suggests. Most people will get synaptic without trying.

This tests for synaptic and pkexec and falls back to xterm if they aren't both installed, and if xterm isn't there you get a popup error message.

if [ -e /usr/sbin/synaptic ] && [ -e /usr/bin/pkexec ] ; then
	pkexec /usr/sbin/synaptic --dist-upgrade-mode true --non-interactive
elif [ -e /var/lib/dpkg/info/xterm.list ] ; then
	sudo_allowed=$(sudo -n uptime 2>&1 | grep load | wc -l)
	# for sudo with no password
	if [[ $sudo_allowed -ne 0 ]] ; then
		xterm -fa mono -fs 12 -hold -e 'sudo "$command"'
	
	# for sudo with password
	elif $(groups $USER | grep -qs sudo); then
		xterm -fa mono -fs 12 -hold -e 'echo "Enter your password" && sudo "$command"'
	
	else
		xterm -fa mono -fs 12 -hold -e 'echo "Enter root password" && su -c "$command"'
	fi
else notify-send "Error:
You need to install synaptic or xterm."
fi

Note: I tried synaptic-pkexec instead of pkexec /usr/sbin/synaptic and the window came up for a fraction of a second and disappeared.
Correction: It now disappears with either line for starting synaptic. If I drop the 'non-interactive' the window stays, but it doesn't show the available upgrades. (You already knew that.)
I'm stumped. Where are you finding these synaptic options?

Oh, duh! Corrected correction: It won't show available upgrades if there aren't any. And the synaptic window will go away. Looks like this is working after all. (without the non-interactive option, the synaptic window stays up if you cancel the upgrades.)

My modified upgrade-yes is not working in my openbox/lxterminal. The terminal comes up empty and does nothing. Did someone else mention that this happened to them?

It does work if I use 'xterm -hold -e <command>'.

I'm having trouble getting x-terminal-emulator to run commands, even when I start it in a terminal, and this happens in openbox/lxterminal as well as xfce/xfce4-terminal.

x-terminal-emulator -e xclock works correctly in both systems.
x-terminal-emulator -e 'echo message' does not work. In ob/lx I get the blank terminal; in xfce I get nothing.

If I use the following for /usr/bin/upgrade-yes, it works with sudo nopasswd and with root. I don't have a sudo with passwd to test. I changed the command to gparted for testing, so it doesn't actually do the upgrade. Comment/uncomment the 'command=' lines as desired. One potential problem is that some terminals need the -hold or --hold option and some don't.

#!/bin/bash

#command="apt dist-upgrade"
command="gparted"
message="If user password fails, use root password"
sudo_allowed=$(sudo -n uptime 2>&1 | grep load | wc -l)

	# for sudo with no password
if [[ $sudo_allowed -ne 0 ]] ; then
	sudo "$command"

	# for sudo with password
elif $(groups $USER | grep -qs sudo); then
	x-terminal-emulator -e 'echo "$message" && sudo "$command"'

else
	x-terminal-emulator -e 'echo "$message" && su -c "$command"'
fi

Ron, what DE or WM and panel are you using?

Did you verify in a terminal (or in synaptic) on that same system that there are updates? I'm pretty sure the update-sync script, which runs 'apt-get update' is not working.  (You can check to see who's running that script with 'ps aux | grep update')

One more. Someone noted a high number of available updates in ascii this morning, so I added a count to show-updates.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

list=$(apt-get -s dist-upgrade | awk '/^Inst/ { print $2 }')

count=$(echo "$list" | wc -l)

notify-send "$count updates available:

$list"

exit 0

If you like it, I'll add this, too.

Test failed. I thought I could use yad to show the list if notify-send failed, but notify-send doesn't actually fail. It works, but without the notification-daemon, the message isn't delivered to the desktop. Oh well, the wm users might have to read a little bit. They should be used to it.