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Re: Test ISO: refracta freia xlibre turnstile pipewire

dummy@example.com (aitor) — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:30:30 +0000

fsmithred wrote:

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

I managed booting genuen + vdev + seatd + xlibre without any display manager https://www.genuen.org/mirror/excalibur and the result is that coldplug input devices at server start do work (devices present before xlibre starts, or after restarting xlibre with the device already plugged in), but disconnect/reconnect or a newly plugged input/event* node won't respond until xlibre is restarted, unless a workaround is used -for example, adding myself to the input group, which isn't very convincing-; the best workaround I've found is to add startxfce4 to ~/.xinitrc and use exec startx instead. I have:

#!/bin/sh
exec /etc/X11/Xsession startxfce4

Btw, I'm curious to try chimera's turnstile, so I downloaded your iso. Thanks!

Re: Test ISO: refracta freia xlibre turnstile pipewire

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:53:20 +0000

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.

Test ISO: refracta freia xlibre turnstile pipewire

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:03:01 +0000

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.