Take a deep breath lvdave . . .  ( a moment of silent contemplation)

The operative phrase being "more easily installed/used".    These all-in-one apps are the fast food of software.  You can either go for a quick burger or learn how to cook and really nourish yourself.   That's a choice we all have to make.  But don't start whining if you don't find a burger on the menu at a 5 star restaurant.  And try to understand that the chefs might find it more than a tad insulting.   This community has an identity and a way of doing and liking things.  You might want to get to know us a bit better before you get all histrionic about not being able to order your favorite burger here.

@willbprogz227 . . . You jogged my memory . . . A very long time ago, I used devilspie because of the lack of window management options in gnome2.   Eventually I dropped it - it was rather fussy and sometimes didn't work.  Perhaps it has improved since   I ended up using compiz to do the task which was more than a bit of overkill but great fun for a while.

I was thinking the same exact thing.

@lvdave . . . If you want that feature, use a systemd-based OS.   It's that simple.

@arnaiz . . . Note that fullscreen is different than maximized - no visible controls.

snapd is a banned package in Devuan because of systemd dependencies:
https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/bannedpackages.txt

Have you checked the usually useless .xsession-errors?

I guess none of you are on the Devuan mail lists or IRC. Perhaps this is a wakeup call to get more involved . . . .  Devuan is not going anywhere.  Someone from Debian did reach out to us and Devuan devs are now cooperating and contributing to ensure sysvinit functionality in Debian.  Devuan devs are also working actively on runit and openrc.

Take a look at refracta2usb.

You can also dd the drive but I can't seem to find the command atm.  It's somewhere in here . . . LOL!

Oh here it is:

dd if=<full path to installer iso> of=/dev/sdx

Delighted to hear that it worked for you.  Hopefully for others too.

I never searched for a solution.  I stumbled on it by accident because I just can't click fast enough to use the default setting!   The speed required was too stressful.  LOLOL!

Yes.

Sure.  Note that I have an old PS2 mouse.  Nothing fancy.

Double Click Time = 400-500 ms
Double Click Distance = 5 px

Well . . .  I have good news to report.  I have been unable to create an iso with refractasnapshot for a very long time despite excluding ALL of my /home directory because the iso were always too big.  So fsmithred and I decided to test your discovery.  He instructed me to change line 1010 from this:

 xorriso -as mkisofs -r -J -joliet-long -l ${isohybrid_opt} \

To this:

 xorriso -as mkisofs -r -J -joliet-long -l ${isohybrid_opt} -iso-level 3 \

It took refracta-snapshot-gui a very long time to copy and squash the files since I had deleted the work directory but eventually it finished with a 4.9GB iso.

Then it was time to try it in qemu.  I was delighted to see the boot process working as usual!!!

Now I need to redo the exclude list to include a basic home structure and perhaps delete a few things elsewhere starting with avahi.

I am overjoyed that I can now use refractasnapshot again.   And this is also a milestone improvement for refracta!  Thank you, thank you alphalpha!!!

Reality check . . . nothing lasts forever.  That being said, to date no posts have been pruned from this forum and would only be done manually with great care on my watch (which of course is also not forever for obvious reasons).