should suffice to add a .desktop entry in ~/.config/autostart/
something like polkit.desktop with contents like these:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Polkit Agent
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=eval "$(/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1)"

yeh, i know about the wiki entry, in my opinion using perl in an initscript for something that can be done with a simple awk command is rather dumb

for the script in the repo i added a couple extra facilites like restarting and status along loading a config file, u know to facilitate things a little for the folks that do intend to use this.

Yeh the installation is rough around the edges, specially if you want to install something other than stable, but i guess it is a combination of 2 factors.
1 the dev team size, it isn't large enough to cover every corner.
2 priorities of development, my guess is since there is an assumption that a large portion of the devuan userbase falls in the cathegory of experienced users the attention is shifted from installation and instead put into more urgent matters, like the current situation with php needing systemd in the near future (which i think is either already fixed or that already is a route to fix it)

late night posting, modified my post so now clicking on the image should direct to the full size image.

eh my rc.lua is currently a "here be dragons" while my dotfiles are at an "Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here" state, i'm cleaning them tho, currently cleaning of my rc lua brought me to cobble together the volume slider as a proper widget, still it needs some work to do but on the meantime i created a repo for dashboard widgets, the volume slider is still not complete but works okay enough i still have to add functionality to change the icon when the sink/souce belongs to an external card or if the port is set to external/headphones, if you want to take a look here's the repo: https://github.com/eylles/dash-widgets

yes i do plan to eventually add the progressbar widgets from the screenshot too, just need to tidy them up.

the video thing is only necesary for wayland since wayland doesn't allow desktop capture like x11 does

1. conversation topic
2. my script is a wrapper around the curl interface of this project, so it is as accurate as it's sources which so far have been accurate for my country

some more necroposting, but now that tt is abandoned then runit takes priority and perhaps s6 will too?

what is the state of plymouth in ceres? i have installed the package and can't get it to work

the xorg server is stable, and even if it were to be abandoned is not like there's anything preventing people from forking and continue developing it, remember gnome2, unity greeter, unity DE,  etc....

also who knows it, the "death" of x11 could be the birth of x12

oh well, necro posting this dead thread but seeing that there is a package for s6 2.7 on beowulf i'm curious if anyone has tried it as even tho runit is good s6 really seems like the logical next step with it being fully compatible with every *nix (at least in theory), i guess porting the services or writing some wrapper/compatibility layer to run service scripts wirtten for sysv or systemd is the biggest roadblock

Edit: nevermind i remembered i can just refer to the debian documentation for this but using devuan's suite names

sorry for pestering with noob questions but does this look like a proper /etc/apt/sources.list for upgrading to chimaera?
i opened the file on vim and did :%s/beowulf/chimaera/g<cr>

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera main non-free contrib
deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera main non-free contrib
deb https://download.onlyoffice.com/repo/debian squeeze main

# deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-security main contrib non-free
# deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-security main contrib non-free

# chimaera-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-updates main contrib non-free

Thanks, the posts of the forum have been helpful, when my base install didn't startx after installing the minimal x server setup a post of the forum had the solution, i had to install the firmware package for amd gpu.