I have tried to install i3wm on Devuan Beowulf. It's been pretty successful, but I have 2 niggling issues. What I've done is this:

- Ran the netinstall, and selected Standard System Utilities
- Selected sysvinit (which is the recommendation)

I then included beowulf-backports in /etc/apt/sources.list (but I really don't think that this is relevant - I just use it for up-to-date firmware and for LibreOffice, which I haven't got to yet)

I then installed the following:
- firmware-linux-nonfree, firmware-iwlwifi (from the backports)
- sudo (and then included my user in the sudoers file using visudo. I'm also in the sudo group)
- htop, lm-sensors, ufw, tlp, tlp-rdw (probably useless in my case), inxi
- xorg, lightdm, lightdm-gtk-greeter
- lxpolkit, lxappearance, lxsession (using --no-install-recommends)
- i3 (the metapackage), rofi
- thunar, terminator, nitrogen, firefox-esr, mpv (video player), deadbeef (music player), numix-icon-theme, oxygencursors
- compton, nm-tray, volumeicon-alsa, alsamixergui

The two problems I have are:
1) I have no sound. I'm sure that I've missed out something important in alsa, but I have no idea what. I've tried pipewire as well as pulseaudio (grasping at straws), but that didn't work, and I've now removed them.
NB: I have commented out autospawn=no in /etc/pulse/client.conf.d/00-disable-autospawn.conf

sudo alsactl init gives me this:
Found hardware: "HDA-Intel" "Intel Haswell HDMI" "HDA:80862807,80860101,00100000" "0x103c" "0x1942"
Hardware is initialized using a generic method

2) nm-tray works, but I don't have an icon. (Just a black box). I get "QSystemTrayIcon::setVisible: No Icon set". Google tells me that this is because nm-tray is looking in /usr/share/pixmaps instead of /usr/share/icons, but I have no idea how to fix this.

3) My touchpad "tap-to-click" isn't working, but I haven't spent any time trying to fix this yet: I'll get to it when I've sorted out my other problems!

Here is my basic system info:

System:    Host: constellation Kernel: 4.19.0-16-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: i3 4.16.1 Distro: Devuan GNU/Linux 3 (beowulf) 
Machine:   Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP ProBook 450 G1 v: A3009DD10303 serial: <root required> 
           Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 1942 v: KBC Version 89.0E serial: <root required> BIOS: Hewlett-Packard 
           v: L74 Ver. 01.03 date: 09/27/2013 
Battery:   ID-1: BAT0 charge: 36.9 Wh condition: 39.3/39.3 Wh (100%) 
CPU:       Quad Core: Intel Core i7-4702MQ type: MT MCP speed: 1106 MHz min/max: 800/3200 MHz 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel 
           Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Mars [Radeon HD 8670A/8670M/8750M] driver: radeon v: kernel 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: intel resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Haswell Mobile v: 4.5 Mesa 18.3.6 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169 
           Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k 
           Device-3: Qualcomm Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth type: USB driver: usb-network 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 787.84 GiB (84.6%) 
Info:      Processes: 171 Uptime: 26m Memory: 7.09 GiB used: 820.6 MiB (11.3%) Shell: bash inxi: 3.0.32

Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks!

I have got myself into a catch-22: I have a really old Acer Aspire 3003LC laptop, and it has no working networking ports. So, I've got a Vodafone Mobile Wi-Fi R206-Z "dongle" which I connect to a usb port. I need to authenticate, so I usually launch a web browser, type in the address http://vodafonemobile.wifi, enter my password and connect.

But Miyo doesn't come with a web browser, so I can't do that. I've tried a few .deb files that I've got (vivaldi, palemoon) but the installation fails because of missing dependencies. I can't install them because I'm not connected to the internet...

So, I can't connect to the internet without a browser, and I can't install a browser without connecting to the internet.

Not a good day.

I've been playing around with themes on Miyo Awesome. I go into "Settings" > "Customize Look & Feel" (lxappearance) but the themes I add to /usr/share/themes don't appear in the list. The themes in /usr/share/awesome/themes are ignored completely. I've had a look at the miyo-awesome-slim-theme and, can't get it to appear either (I've followed the instructions).

My second problem is that after playing around I've gone and lost the very nice screen that showed up when being prompted for my password. The one I've got now is rather ugly. How do I restore the default Miyo Awesome login screen?  I assume that this is set somewhere in /etc/slim.conf.

Thanks.