refracta2usb definitely doesn't solve the encrypted suspend problem. I suppose you could unmount the loopback file that has the encrypted filesystem and then suspend, but I've never tried. I just turn it off if I need it to be secure.

The other problem r2u doesn't solve is the user ID when moving home across different machines. It's meant for a live-usb, so you just take your own OS with you.

The only problem I might have with homed is if it gets in the way of doing things differently. I guess we'll see...

Boots for me in qemu:
qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 512 -smp cores=2,threads=2 -cdrom KNOPPIX_V8.6-2019-08-08-EN.iso

Boots fast.

You might run into conflicts with extensions. Maybe there's a way to set the second firefox to use something other than ~/.mozilla to store its files.

Me too. Been doing luks-encrypted home on a stick for years, with the additional feature of a read-only operating system. https://refracta.org/docs/readme.refracta2usb.txt
I don't have interchangeable UID's or automatic close-luks-on-suspend. You'll have to turn the laptop off when you go through customs.

Oh! I checked two asciis, one jessie and a beowulf. I don't have one, and I don't recall ever seeing that.

It gets created when you run a root application on the user's desktop. My /root/.cache has subdirectories named after the apps I've run as root.

x-terminal-emulator is set in the alternatives system. That will be a symlink to the actual terminal, which is probably the terminal that came with your desktop or possibly the last terminal you installed.

ls -l /etc/alternatives/x-terminal-emulator

The man page for x-terminal-emulator will be the man page for the actual terminal. On one of my systems, it shows me the man page for lxterminal, and on another it's xfce4-terminal. That means the available options for x-terminal-emulator will not be the same for everyone. If the hold is needed (I suspect it is, but I'm not certain) we can make a function to test which terminal is used and which is the appropriate 'hold' option.

I think it's perfectly reasonable to leave out the terminal. Anyone who prefers upgrading in a terminal already knows how to open one and get root.

The first line with XIKeyClass on my desktop is my mouse. On the laptop, it's Virtual Core Keyboard.

⎜   ↳ Logitech USB Receiver                     id=11   [slave  pointer  (2)]
        Reporting 6 classes:
                Class originated from: 11. Type: XIButtonClass
                Buttons supported: 7
                Button labels: "Button 0" "Button Unknown" "Button Unknown" "Button Wheel Up" "Button Wheel Do
wn" "Button Horiz Wheel Left" "Button Horiz Wheel Right"
                Button state:
                Class originated from: 11. Type: XIKeyClass

   not quite. That way leaves white space at the end. Maybe add another sed that removes the white space. (not sure if it's a tab or several spaces.)

$ echo "$keyboard_id"
10

$echo "$keyboard_id"x
10     x

setxkbmap

Thanks! I forgot about that one. It works instantly.

Also, I mis-reported one thing above. After killing the desktop with alt-sysrq-k, the change in keyboard-configuration took effect, and I got the us keyboard.

I didn't get to try the installer but hope to do that some time. Too much other stuff to do now. If anyone else tries it, please let me know.

I tried the avmultimini.iso. Thanks for putting that up. Here are some notes you might find useful.

I can get it to boot in qemu (with kvm) in legacy bios mode with 'eno' boot code. If I try uefi mode, it hangs on the archivista splash screen. The vertical size of the window increases to 2-3 times normal height, and I have to resize the window to see the bottom of the screen. After a few minutes of this, the cpu starts to get hot.

I can't get it to boot in virtualbox. Tried uefi and legacy bios.

It boots normally from usb. Booted it in legacy bios mode with 'eno' boot code.

The language was English except for kodi, which came up in German.

Changing the keyboard layout presented some problems. First I tried 'dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration'. I wanted to log out and in again to get it to take effect, but there's no way to log out of the desktop. I tried 'init 1' and nothing happened. I finally tried alt-sysrq-k and was able to restart the desktop. Keyboard was still German. This was especially frustrating for me because it made it impossible to do some things in the terminal.

Then I went into the desktop settings and found the keyboard layout settings. The drop-down menu for countries goes off-screen, and I can't scroll down.

I did not have any problems with the display orientation. The buttons on the panel work and are very cool. That's the first time I've ever been able to rotate the screen. (I don't need it, but I have tried it out of curiosity. Nice to see it finally work.)

It was also nice to see the pulseaudio volume control work. I haven't had good luck with that in the past.

Getting it to run in virtualbox or qemu is probably not essential to using it, but a lot of people like to test new isos in a virtual environment, for convenience.

Me too. It shouldn't work unless you're running it as root. When I split that up into two functions, I had it record the exit code of 'apt-get update', and while it kept running at the expected interval, it spit out an error code every time.

Also stumped by the inability to find sudo. Maybe the quoting needs to be changed?  "sudo $command" instead of 'sudo "$command"' with or without the full path. (grasping at straws here.)