Yes, appimages should work in devuan. I just tested the musescore I downloaded in 2017 for jessie, and it still runs on beowulf. I did not have to install anything special.

0755 should be sufficient for the permissions.

Try running it from a terminal to see if you get any useful messages. That might be helpful for the developer of this alpha software.

It is correct that you see only the Deepsea theme in Appearance settings. The other themes you see in /usr/share/themes are for other things. To take your example, Smoke, note that the gtk.css file is in a directory called xfce-notify-4.0. That's a good hint.

Go to Settings, Notifications, and play with the Theme drop-down menu. As you select each theme, you'll see a popup notification that uses your selected theme.

The command you're looking for is 'tree'. You probably need to install it. Then run

tree /usr/share/themes

and you'll get the tree-like output you want.

The reason xfs is greyed out in gparted is because the xfsprogs package is not installed. If you have enough RAM to install packages in a live session, you can install xfsprogs and then format partitions with xfs.

Refractainstaller will not prevent you from using xfs. You just have to tell it not to format your partitions and do that part yourself. In the graphical installer, check the box that says "Do not format filesystems..." and for the cli installer, edit /etc/refractainstaller.conf to set no_format="yes" (uncomment the line).

Thanks for reminding me. I meant to delete that iso after it was tested.

If there's no root password, then you must have chosen to use sudo when you were installing. In that case, you would use your user password. If you do a regular install instead of expert, you will not be asked if you want to use sudo. Here's a pictorial guide to the installer:
https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation … all-devuan

At what point are you being asked for a password that you don't have?

I did an upgrade of refracta 10 (beowulf) to 11 (chimaera) recently and took notes. Here it is in more detail and with some configs that are specific to refracta.

sed -i 's/beowulf/chimaera/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
apt update
apt upgrade

Allow services to restart automatically.

Config files. Take defaults yes/no as indicated below.
/etc/issue            No, keep old version and edit to change 10 to 11.
/etc/pam.d/login    Yes, install new version
/etc/sysctl.conf    No, keep old version.  (kernel.sysrq=1)
/etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf        Yes, install new version. (edit to set COMPRESSION=xz)
/etc/ssh/sshd_config    take new
/etc/cryptsetup-initramfs/conf-hook        take new
/etc/lvm/lvm.conf    take new    (edit udev_sync=0 udev_rules=0 to fix boot delay)

optional:
/etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume        (RESUME=none)

reboot
apt dist-upgrade

apt will then warn about xscreensaver or xlockmore.
As user, in another terminal run:  pkill xscreensaver
Then press ENTER to proceed in the root terminal. (not any key as it says.)

apt autoremove
reboot

Note: did not get wicd transitional package.
If you get stuck without network, run:

  dhclient eth0
  apt install wicd

(it will install network-manager-gnome)

To avoid that problem, install wicd (the metapackage) before the upgrade.

echo "kernel.sysrq=1" >> /etc/sysctl.conf

That's in my script to make refracta-8, which was ascii, but not for 7, which was jessie. So it started in debian stretch.

And I quit using  -e and -i because all they do is generate a console message saying that they are disabled.

I'm getting 11MB/s with rsync or sftp on the local network, Cat6 with gigabit router.

USB is faster, but that requires getting out of the chair.

Refracta uses only Devuan repositories. Refracta IS Devuan, just with a different name and some different configurations. Your boot menu might say Devuan after the upgrade. You can change that in /etc/default/grub if you want.

Use upgrade instructions for Devuan. Do not use instructions for migration from Debian.

Refracta tracks Debian version numbers because it started out as a Debian re-spin with Debian Lenny (5). It was switched to Devuan with Jessie, and it didn't make sense to go from version 7 to version 1.

Ah, I did just think of one package that isn't in the repo. refracta2usb. The newest version of that is here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/refrac … -2.4.3.deb
It will work with beowulf, chimaera, and probably daedalus, too.

There's no support for lvm in refractainstaller. If you do full disk encryption, you would need to enter the luks passphrase once for grub and then once for the root partition. In that case, /boot is in the root partition. If you made a separate partition for /home, you would need to enter the passphrase for that partition, too.

The only filesystem that refractainstaller knows about is ext[2,3,4].

OK, now here's the part where I tell you about going past the limits.

You could make luks keyfiles to avoid or reduce passphrase entries after the install.
You can use other filesystems if you use the cli installer and set the config file to no_format=yes. Partition and format as you want, then run the installer. You might need to install something in the live system to do this. I don't know what xfs needs.

You can also use the cli installer and manually create lvm or raid. I left some notes about that here: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=2323  One thing that's changed is that you don't have to end the /dev/mapper/name with a digit.

ForgeOS (Formerly Michael's Devuan Edition) uses a modified version of the cli refractainstaller that does support lvm. I've only had a couple of brief looks at it and haven't had a chance to dive into the code. The other notable difference is that you make all your selections at the beginning instead of waiting for questions to pop up.

Glad you got it fixed. For future reference, those GDBus errors complaining about missing .service files are just noise from programs that expect you to be running systemd, even though they may not require it. I see them often when I start programs from a terminal.

The watermark is barely visible in the gray field. It's the round peppermint candy. (And now I want one. Or a candy cane, but they're all gone.)

I bumped the request up to our traveling guru at dyne.org. Be patient. He moves faster than email.