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fsmithred

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Registered: 2016-11-25

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Test ISO: refracta freia xlibre turnstile pipewire

In the spirit of "Let's change three or four variables at once and see what happens" this one started out as a Refracta 13 (Excalibur) no-X iso, upgraded to Freia, and then had some lxqt and xfce thrown at it along with getting xorg replaced with xlibre. It also has turnstile installed for user services (see man suss) and pipewire set up as a user service. It also has a few wireless firmware packages installed from the firmware-nonfree repo.

https://get.refracta.org/files/experime … 7_1411.iso

There's a short README in the user's home. Read it.

If you need to log in:
Login: user       Password: user
Login: root       Password: root

The default desktop is lxqt. To get to xfce in the live iso is tricky.
Drop to console, stop lightdm, comment out the autologin lines in lightdm.conf, start lightdm, click on the white dot in the login panel to select the session. Choices are lxqt, xfce or openbox. They all work from here.

If you drop to console, stop lightdm and then run startxfce4, you end up with no inputs. If you use startlxqt or startx /usr/bin/openbox-session in console, you do get inputs. I don't know why it's like that.

fsmithred

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Re: Test ISO: refracta freia xlibre turnstile pipewire

Easier way to get to xfce. Don't know why I didn't think of this the first time.

At the isolinux boot menu (for legacy boot) press TAB, or at the grub menu (for uefi boot) press e to edit the boot command.

Add either 'noautologin' or 'nox11autologin' to the boot command. For legacy boot, it goes at the end of the command that appears at the bottom of the screen. For uefi boot it goes at the end of the linux line.

You'll boot to a lightdm login screen. Login as user with password user.

Has anyone tried this iso yet? Please see if you can break it. Thanks.