2 very different GREAT voices, very good; thanks!

To "anti-agglutinate" to the right side; you can try adding a Separator with the expand option checked, to the panel.

Maybe try setting the Panel to Hide Always, move a window down from the under the Panel area, set Panel back to Hide Never, then maximize the window and see what happens.

You might try disabling compositing (if using) until you get the problem resolved.

Clear saved sessions.

As a last resort, maybe set up a new user and see how XFCE behaves when logged in as not you; if this user is ok, this would indicate what @ChuangTzu is leading to.

see this thread, it may help:

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=2340

b43-fwcutter is in contrib, and the firmware can be found at https://sources.openwrt.org/broadcom-wl … .5.tar.bz2.

Roy Clark, master of guitar, RIP. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz2hXI7Ny9I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XUqey6OWTk

As a test, I attempted your download:

youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3JPUobdDm8

And received the error.  I then updated my youtube-dl:

pip install --upgrade youtube-dl

Then tried the download again and it worked fine.

Yes; good to know.  This points out how important it is to know best you can the Linux support level of all the hardware of the particular machine you are purchasing.  And get to know the hardware before purchase.

I think its important to determine the manufacture of each hardware device on a laptop thats going to run Linux, not just the laptop manufacturer itself.  Realize that the newest devices may not be supported yet.  I have had better luck with all Intel spec machines, but I am not getting the best of graphics.  Wifi seems to be the most troublesome device; my experience with Atheros has always worked out of the box, Realtek has been trouble, and broadcom works fine if you get the right non-free drivers.

One thing I do now is buy locally and make sure it can be returned if dissatisfied.  That way you can run a distro from CD/USB and test all the hardware out.

I recently bought an HP laptop that was all Intel specs.  But running Linux had no wifi.  Turns out the wireless card is not yet supported in the Debian/Devuan stable release.  But testing had an update that did support it.  Very happy with HP along with Intel specs; all works and well. HPs implementation of UEFI is very easy to work with.

I bought an Acer about a year ago.  Mostly happy with it except the "click pad" is crap; the cursor can randomly jump to a different location.  Acer UEFI implementation not nearly as clean as HPs.

Good luck with your purchase!

You probably mean Right-Click, but whatever.  I wonder if this is the same as your other problem, that the popup menu isnt displayed long enough for you to react.  And then the top menu option (Open Link in New Tab) is being selected "quickly" before you realize it?

Both these problems happen to me, randomly also, but I notice it in Thunar.  I can Right-Click on empty space to bring up the menu, and the top menu option "Create Folder" gets selected before I can react.  Also, experience your other problem; the menu quickly goes away and I have to hold the right button down and navigate the menu while its pressed. 

I am using an old HP usb wire mouse.

From various user installs that point to the fact, is it as simple that LightDM=elogind and slim=consolekit?  Is it that the login manager is what really matters in regards to the polkit, and the subsequent desktop environment doesnt care?  Has anyone experienced an install combination that doest adhere to this rule?

If you are having various permission problems, you may be experiencing the infamous libpolkit problem.  Cant shut down, cant mount usb devices, cant access wifi network...

Its been my experience that LightDM requires libpolkit-backend-elogind, as opposed to libpolkit-backend-consolekit (used by slim?).  Check to see what libpolkit you have installed, I suspect consolekit?

If you have consolekit installed,  try installing the elogind polkit:

apt-get install libpolkit-backend-elogind-1-0

This will remove consolekit and install elogind.

I read most all the posted thread and find it an "interesting" discussion. 

What does this really mean for Devuan?  I imagine it means that Devuan would have to not only support sysvinit itself, but every package that requires an "init", to be modified to use sysvinit inteast of systemd? 

Naively; currently, how is OpenRC handled in Devuan?  Is this handled on the Debian side, or does Devuan "make OpenRC happen"? trying to get an understanding of what Devuan already has done in regard to custom init development/maintain, and what it depends on from Debian.

I listen to music on youtube more than any other source.  Its not just the audio, I much enjoy watching live performances as well as non-live video; both official releases and ones that common folk have made themselves.  Sound quality varies by individual video, most of what I find is "good enough".

Google isnt the only company selling my/your data.  Practically every company that has any personal data is selling it.  It cant be avoided.

I personally prefer not to have a vast CD collection.  I have what I bought, mostly in the 90s.  Prefer mp3 and other digital format these days.  If I really like something and want to support the artist, I will buy and download the digital release.