Let's define the problem: you want an access to contents of partitions or you want ability to mount/unmount partitions for user without root privileges?

The fact: mounting/unmounting local partition with unprivileged user permissions doesn't work in Devuan out of box. Devuan ASCII and Devuan Ceres - same result. I think it shouldn't work because it's correct that unprivileged user can mount/unmount only removable devices. I wonder why it works on RIA77's PC after reinstalling Devian. May be this time he selected ntfs partition in installer and now it mounted during system boot.

This is common problem of newcommers. They trying to use knowledge learned from Windows.

It seems driver works properly.

Could you give detailed description of the problem? When and how panels, wallpapers and other GUI elements are showing up? How it happens during desktop work? How do you start desktop (slim, startx, or with something else)? Did you try nouveau driver?

Are you sure driver works properly?

glxinfo | grep vendor
glxinfo | grep direct

If you want to mount partition with mouse - no. You just need to change policykit rules. If you want to get partition already mounted after booting - yes.

If you have created /mnt/dev/sda5 directory manually - it's correct and after reboot NTFS partition will be mounted automatically. If it worked - it's great and you can add some options for better system integration.

I give a number of solutions. The incorrect one is what topicstarter exactly asked (it's similar to printing screenshot of filemanager instead output of ls command). The correct one is the solution i recommend.

In my opinion the correct way is /etc/fstab, but it's possible to "fix" your problem without editing text config if you want mouseclicking. You have to check following packages: policykit, gvfs, thunar-volman, udisks2 or something like that (you can find them with both synaptic and apt/aptitude). Just in case check ntfs-3g package - may be you have not installed it yet.

For (in my opinion) correct way you have to create directories for all of your ntfs partitions in the /mnt directory. This is work of installer but you can do it yourself. For example:

Suppose you've got a two ntfs partitions. Let's name directories "ntfs1" and "ntfs2" (you can name them as you want)

Next, you have to know where ntfs partitions are. The most simple way is to find block device address in filesystem, but the most reliable way is to use UUID. First of all, let's find partitions with the tool called blkid. Just type as root the following:

You'l get a list of partitions, their UUIDs and PARTUUIDs.

Now you can edit /etc/fstab. Suppose ntfs partitions are /dev/sda3 and /dev/sda4. In this case you have to add following strings into /etc/fstab:

/dev/sda3 /mnt/ntfs1 ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
/dev/sda4 /mnt/ntfs2 ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

Now you can mount ntfs partition from root user or they will be mounted automatically after reboot.

If you want to mount partitions using UUID or PARTUUID you have to use them instead of path to block device:

UUID=ThereMustBeUuidWhichIsALongMessOfLettersAndNumbers /mnt/ntfs1 ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
UUID=ThereMustBeUuidWhichIsALongMessOfLettersAndNumbers /mnt/ntfs2 ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

PARTUUID=ThereMustBePartUuidWhichMayBeShorterThanUuid /mnt/ntfs1 ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
PARTUUID=ThereMustBePartUuidWhichMayBeShorterThanUuid /mnt/ntfs2 ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

For more details including recommended options you can read a simple manual: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NT … onfiguring

If it doesn't work you'l need to install ntfs-3g driver from repository.

I would agree if Poettering wasn't just a pawn. If Poettering will stop someone else will come. I won't describe here the problem in details right now because it can harm this forum. The only thing i can say here is: community became weak. This is why systemd and other crappy initiatives came to FLOSS ecosystem.

Looks like it's videodriver issue. Could you write here your hardware config? Especially CPU and videocard/GPU.

Desktop is not something shiny. Desktop is environment able to provide tools necessary for end user. So Devuan target audience are also desktop users. Shiny GUI is rather anti-desktop. It's time to do total revision of the "desktop" term.

GNU/Linux is very friendly OS. But it chooses friends carefully.

Thus:

1. The matter of having userbase is the matter of having userbase from community.

2. Random user is useless for community, community is useless for a random user. There must be mutual interests, otherwise a group of parasites will appear nearby community.

3. Community is not amorphous mass. It's self-organized group with common idea.

4. Community must be aggressive. It's essential for self-defense. But aggression must be directed into right way. It's impossible to be friendly to everyone. Being friendly to someone means being a hostile to someone else. I suppose everyone here understand what do i mean.

Many topics on community behavior are still to be discussed.

On Devuan improvement: It's a great base for custom distribution and custom improvements. Additional repos and scripts will be very helpful. Corporation able to beat community in this field is impossible. I've got some ideas but i have no enough time to start implementations. I hope i'l get more time soon.

It seems you need the following manual: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianCustomCD

Since tools for Devuan are same you can try to make a custom iso.

I didn't see anything ubuntu-specific in official AppImage manual.

Besides, there are a lot of pre-built appimages:

https://appimage.github.io/apps/
https://bintray.com/probono/AppImages
https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/appimages