Good to hear. I'm pretty sure that all it does is make an fstab entry for the home partition. And I think you don't get the new desktop config files that way. Also, if the user name and uid don't match, you have serious problems.

There are also instances of "/home/$username" in various config files that might need to be changed. The live installer can do this when you select a new user name, but ONLY if you take the new /home that the installer gives you (i.e. it copies the home from the live system.)

First user gets id 1000:1000 in debian and probably all debian-based systems. It's the number that determines who owns the files, not the name.

If you're planning on using refractainstaller's "keep old home" option, my advice is "Don't do it!"  Install everything to one partition and then manually move your home to the old home partition. Or make a symlink in your new home that goes to the old home. If you want more details on how to do it manually, just ask.

I believe this problem and others with the repo have been fixed. Please let us know if that's not the case.

Oops. My typo. Should be headers not header. I did it with dollar sign and parentheses, but you can also do it with backticks, which are easier to type but not easier to see in a post.

apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`

The most guified and clicky package manager is synaptic

pkgmaster.devuan.org should be replaced with deb.devuan.org. That way you will pull from the nearest mirror, and we won't have everyone hitting on the main server. Thanks.

Thanks, that works.

If you do get the native window manager menu on right-click, you need to run pcmanfm --display-pref to get the the desktop settings. (to change the wallpaper again after enabling the wm menu)

I know two ways to get the desktop background image in openbox.

1. spacefm - add the following line to ~/.config/openbox/autostart
spacefm --desktop &
To select a background, open spacefm and go to View, Preferences, then check the Wallpaper box and select an image. That image will come up as the background when you start openbox.

2. nitrogen - add the following line to ~/.config/openbox/autostart
nitrogen --set-scaled /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-background

3. If you use lxdm, openbox will take the background and gtk theme set in /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf
(Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!)

I checked pcmanfm, but I couldn't find a setting for the desktop background.

The problem is you keep trying to install the xfce4 package when you don't want it. It's a metapackage that pulls in parts of the xfce4 desktop that you don't want. Just install the parts you do want as I posted above.

Here it is again, without the extra backslash at the end:

apt install  xfconf xfdesktop4 xfwm4 xfce4-terminal xfce4-session xfce4-xkb-plugin xfce4-panel \
thunar thunar-volman thunar-archive-plugin xfce4-notifyd libnotify-bin mesa-utils  \
xfce4-power-manager xfce4-cpugraph-plugin  xfwm4-themes

More info:

I have xfce working with lxdm in refracta9. You're probably missing some polkit package(s). Run the following command and compare the output. (Note that there are duplicates in the list.)

user@refracta:~$ dpkg -l | egrep "consolekit|elogind|policykit|polkit|libpam"
ii  elogind                              234.4-2                            amd64        user, seat and session management daemon
ii  libelogind0:amd64                    234.4-2                            amd64        user, seat and session management library
ii  libpam-elogind:amd64                 234.4-2                            amd64        elogind PAM module
ii  libpam-modules:amd64                 1.1.8-3.6                          amd64        Pluggable Authentication Modules for PAM
ii  libpam-modules-bin                   1.1.8-3.6                          amd64        Pluggable Authentication Modules for PAM - helper binaries
ii  libpam-runtime                       1.1.8-3.6                          all          Runtime support for the PAM library
ii  libpam0g:amd64                       1.1.8-3.6                          amd64        Pluggable Authentication Modules library
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0:amd64            0.105-25+devuan0~bpo2+1            amd64        PolicyKit Authentication Agent API
ii  libpolkit-backend-1-0                0.105-25+devuan0~bpo2+1            all          PolicyKit Authorization API
ii  libpolkit-backend-elogind-1-0:amd64  0.105-25+devuan0~bpo2+1            amd64        PolicyKit backend API
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0                0.105-25+devuan0~bpo2+1            all          PolicyKit Authorization API
ii  libpolkit-gobject-elogind-1-0:amd64  0.105-25+devuan0~bpo2+1            amd64        PolicyKit Authorization API
ii  policykit-1                          0.105-25+devuan0~bpo2+1            amd64        framework for managing administrative policies and privileges
ii  policykit-1-gnome                    0.105-6                            amd64        authentication agent for PolicyKit
user@refracta:~$ 

That won't work so well in debian-based distros. (Won't work at all.)

grub-install [target] installs the bootloader. target is a drive or partition for legacy/bios systems, omitted for uefi systems.
update-grub creates the boot menu

We do have that:
https://files.roundr.devuan.org/devuan_ … imal-live/

You should not have to install grub manually. If you saw a "copy files" button, then that was the right one to pick. That causes the grub-pc package to be installed and gives you the blue debconf windows for choosing the location.

When it hangs, take a look in /var/log/refractainstaller.log (or refractainstaller_error(s).log depending on the version) or post/paste it somewhere for me to see.

Does your hard drive have msdos or gpt partition table?