@brday I install from the base system and can't get anywhere near 160 MiB. Must be all the bloat I added.

Bummer. I haven't got any amd stuff on old or new hardware.

I install devuan with no desktop environment so there's no xorg. Then I install ntpsec, curl and gnupg. After that I install xlibre. This way you could try apt-mark hold xorg then install mate-desktop or mate-desktop-environment.

As for mesa-libgallium maybe you could try installing that before mate or apt mark-hold mate-desktop-environment if mates already installed then install mesa-libgallium.

I only ended up with no amd hardware by chance not choice and have had only good results using xlibre.

For wpa_gui I had to do this in /etc/network/interfaces

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
             wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

then sudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

ctrl_interface=DIR=/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
update_config=1
p2p_disabled=1

@fsmithred  If you ran the install-packages.sh it has grub-pc included in it, if you didn't I'm not sure. I've finished with this now. It was good fun. I've added the updated tar file on sourceforge and there's a build-readme as well. https://sourceforge.net/projects/unoffi … box/files/

I set it up to use the username and password of the machine taking the snapshot. So for example I can setup a system the way I want with a username live password live (it uses place_holder for whatever anyone wants to use), install the required packages for refracta and calamares, then from refracta-calamares-setup run scripts/install-config.sh, then run scripts/build-iso.sh and it's all done.

Calamares removes itself once it's finished the installation from the live usb. I also configured calamares to keep home/$USER/.config and home/$USER/.local, this can be added to or removed.

Anyone can change the logo, images for slideshow, number of images used, name of the installer or iso etc. And again CHAT BOTS have been used to write the scripts.

Refracta snapshot made this really easy so thanks again.

@greenjeans Possibly, they tried installing on a new desktop and an old laptop. I did tell them this and to look in the bios for options to disable anything UEFI boot, secure boot. If you used something simple like calamares, with a good cleanup script all the crap it installs could be removed leaving vuudo just the way you intended it to be.

@fsmithred When I used refractasnapshot I had the user set to human and EFI enabled. When I used the live usb the user name and password were the same as the user name and password from the machine that took the snapshot. Starting calamares it always asked for user name and password and that was the one from the machine that took the snapshot. I tried getting the chat bots to make calamares start with out putting in a user name and password but it didn't work so I just moved on using the one from the machine that took the snapshot.

During the install process with the calamares gui I put in user name test and password 1234 and when booting into the installed system it logged in with test and 1234. I did not install any of these  cracklib_runtime and reinstall libcrack2. I am not a dev but I'm sure you don't have to do this "I would need to rearrange the build process of the iso to do it the debian-live way". All i know is it works with what you already have.

Grub was the final hurdle I had before the installer finished with out error. If you look at the bootloader.conf I used it's in the tar file on sourceforge I will not post it here given the love for ai slop. But this worked. I would suggest looking at all the module files in refracta-calamares-setup/config/etc/calamares they follow what the calamares source code says. When I boot the installed system I get a blue screen with the Devuan logo Devuan GNU/Linux, Advanced options for Devuan GNU/Linux and booting in countdown.
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You guys make great stuff and with windows 11 people are trying out your work and want to use it. If you want people to use your work try and think like them and not a dev

.Edit. I only checked the user name and password I used in the Calamares installer and the installed system logs in with both that and the user name and password from the machine that created the snapshot

There's a readme here on what I'm doing https://sourceforge.net/projects/unoffi … box/files/ I just made it to show you and It does not work yet, but i'll get there. Also like fsmithred said it's bloated but I think it would be good for vuudo

Yeah, I will test that. I'll also test an excalibur version of your video player if you make one. I'm using vlc and it's huge compared to the size of your video player. vlc is great but I don't need all its features.

I don't use the one click open a folder or file, I did like it in vuudo I had never tired it before, but I would click things I did not mean to. In the default double click to open, the first click does display the size of a file down the bottom of the window but only the name for folders. Maybe, if you could try add the size next to the name in the bottom of the window for the default double click they might be more open to your icon suggestion.

Different topic, In gtk-greeter I could set my own wallpaper and icon in the login dialog box thingy. Do you know how to make the white background of the dialog box transparent? Is it possible? I'm using the default setup not your vuudo one. Everything I've tried has failed.

I couldn't get this working on daedalus so I installed excalibur with openbox and haven't had any issues.

Update from the chat bots.

Latest release has come a long way from when I started this. It is at a point that I'm happy with and it seems to be working good. Now I've got the features I wanted on top of jack (bluetooth and connecting apps that don't support jack, except steam it doesn't work with steam). And all without having to use a terminal. Thanks again greenjeans for sharing your code.

All the chat bot code is there for all to see, use and improve if anyone is interested. You can download the code or latest release here https://sourceforge.net/projects/jack-bridge/ or here https://github.com/rations/jack-bridge/releases

There are some UNTESTED versions for openrc on Arch and Debian and also runit for Void in the github branches. They are a few commits behind the master branch. I'll get the chat bots to update them to the latest release soon.

I'm not talking jack-bridge, on my vuudo setup I use AlsaTune and just installed qjackctl. The reason I suggest combining AlsaTune with vuudo media and video is I like adding the launcher to the panel and having them all combined into one app (only one icon in the panel) would be great.

Don't want to spam pictures, just one more update from the chat bots today.

Added an expander to the mixer controls so now you can can collapse or expand everything in the gui.

This is on mate.

Update from the chat bots. Fixed some more bugs and updated uninstall.sh script to make sure it removes the disable pulseaudio auto spawn that is installed by the install.sh script. You do not have to remove pulseaudio for jack-bridge to work if anybody is intrested in trying it and you can start and stop pulseaudio with pulseaudio --start and pulseaudio --kill

Also created a tar.gz file so you don't have to clone the repo. It's on sourceforge here  https://sourceforge.net/projects/jack-bridge/  or on github here https://github.com/rations/jack-bridge/releases