Isn't KDE going Wayland only?

Yes, with 6.8. That's still a ways off for Debian/Devuan, but one should be aware that X11 support has been in feature-freeze for some time and anything but critical bugs are very unlikely to be fixed.

KDE is a much better choice. No mutter, no GTK. No glitches with kwin compositor (chose x11, not wyaland!).

Isn't KDE going Wayland only?

To disable sleeeping/screen blanking middle click battery icon in tray (KDE). Simple as one click.

Im curious about this, ive always used below code to disable DPMS and prevent screen from blanking, what is yours doing differently?

Overkill, two of the commands are the same as yours, the first command in mine takes the extra step of turning all the values to nil before turning it off completely. (values = blank,suspend,shutdown). In certain systems/situations xset can be persnickety, this insures that if somehow the -dpms command is reversed, it will still not blank etc. because all the values are turned off.

Good analogy is a volume control like in alsamixer, it has a slider for volume but also a mute function that cuts off sound completely.
-dpms is the mute switch, and 0 0 0 is the volume sliders that we're turning all the way down.

I don't use a power manager in the mini's I make, nor in my own installs, I have a small script that runs once on startup that turns it all off.

#! /bin/sh

xset dpms 0 0 0
xset -dpms
xset s off

Im curious about this, ive always used below code to disable DPMS and prevent screen from blanking, what is yours doing differently?

xset s off -dpms

Devuan Linux could very well use what #!++ and BunsenLabs have as default: a customised Openbox WM.
To do that would probably mean much less work for the devs at Devuan.

Have to disagree with that a bit, BunsenLabs is actually quite complex and takes a lot of work for them to produce, and for the upcoming release it's mostly XFCE now though the WM is still Openbox.

It takes a lot of work in my experience to craft a 'box system that is user-friendly to garden-variety users. There's a lot of dots to connect to make it comfy.

I still think Mate would be a better choice for Devuan and be easier for the devs to deal with.

If a move to an alternative, I would suggest JWM. I used to use Fluxbox everywhere myself, until I found JWM, it made for a better looking 'desktop'.

+1

Devuan Linux could very well use what #!++ and BunsenLabs have as default: a customised Openbox WM.
To do that would probably mean much less work for the devs at Devuan.

Those who want / need a desktop could install Mate.
As always, YMMV.

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09: Again assuming pulseaudio: get sinks with 'pactl list-sinks', put 'set-default-sink [index you found with pactl]' in /etc/pulse/default.pa (see e.g. here)...
Or use a less gimped DE that has a GUI for configuring this and persists settings across logins.

If you're running pipewire the answers are similar, STW for correct config syntax.

10: If they're standard keys (i.e. not some vendor-specific nonsense), get the scancodes with xev - then assign them to do something with XKB or xmodmap... Or use a less gimped DE which supports media keys directly and provides a GUI for configuring them.
If they are special vendor-specific voodoo (i.e. xev doesn't spit out a scancode), they might emit ACPI events instead - for which there is acpid.

The rest: All XFCE problems. I don't use XFCE, I don't like XFCE, and I have no idea why it is the default desktop since it's not even particularly "lightweight" these days.

Welcome to Dev1.

Open a terminal and run this:

$ xset -q

In a section labelled [Screen Saver:] you will see the working settings.
I understand that they override all other settings.

See [man xset] for details on how to set them.

Best,

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If you install Devuan from live iso (XFCE) you get precooked XFCE  which is much better cooked than the default one instaled via tasksel or apt.

or choose another DE