I have been using Xfce for over 5 years and never had either of these problems.  I have 7 desktops running with 3/4 different browsers going at all times.  I often do extensive graphical, audio and video editing and will keep those windows in and out of suspend for days/weeks at a time.   The only "freezing" issue I have ever had is with firefox - no surprise there.  xkill fixes that with one click.  I use the nouveau driver and it works well with intel graphics.   

I'd start by checking every option under the window manager settings.   But it sounds like more of a graphics driver issue to me.  Could also be lack of hardware resources.  I just impulse ordered another 4GB RAM last night. 

Well, it was his/her choice not ours.  User community projects like that are under user control to create, host and support etc..  Several others have tried and failed also.  Perhaps you can reverse the curse!

(I could google translate this but have no way of knowing how accurate it would be so please forgive the English)

That forum was initiated and maintained by a Devuan user, Capricornus iirc, who disappeared after that.  I believe there were some notes posted here and on that forum about the pending closure.   Perhaps now, a year later, there would be interest in trying again.  Wouldn't hurt to ask.  I still have the logo if you're interested.

But . . . but . . . but . . . it's pulseaudio . . .

It's back up now.  Was down even yesterday.

Wonder what's up with that.  Maybe they forgot to pay the renewal . . .

Yes, dzz is a member but I have not seen him in over a year.  Last forum visit was 2017-04-05.

These two links should answer your questions:
https://files.devuan.org/devuan_ascii/Release_notes.txt
https://devuan.org/os/etc/apt/sources.list

I don't know that anyone has tried to upgrade exe-gnu jessie to ascii (stretch).  Would probably be a good idea to do it in a VM first.   Trinity does have several mail lists that might have an answer to your question in the archives.

It would be a learning curve but well worth it imo.  Forks should include source code and history from day 1.  Sometimes that is not so easy to find.  IRC might be the best place to get help on how to do that.

Wrong.  Slim is the default DM for Xfce and works perfectly.  Did you have a problem with it?

pkgmaster is the source for the deb.devuan.org round-robin.
The issue with using deb.devuan.org on jessie has been fixed:
https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/2 … 51.en.html

Please report issues to bugs,devuan.org.

Yes.  I also find it a bit awkward to do during the installation process.

fsmithred is amazing!

Quite a few users have gotten openrc running just fine.  I am not one of them.  Still mostly on jessie.

@Miyo . . . what are you smoking?