I did a minimal install of daedalus with runit in qemu and then added xorg and kde-standard without recommends. I can confirm that on reboot into the installed system I don't get a login prompt until I press ENTER. After installing sddm, it boots to a graphical login screen.

User's subdirectories get created on first login to the graphical desktop. I got them.

The version in ceres will probably be in excalibur in less than a week. You didn't do anything wrong. You would need to install more packages or do an upgrade with the ceres repo enabled to screw up the system.

After 'init 3' command, you don't need to use the service command. They will start (unless you screwed with all the symlinks.) I use sysv-rc-conf to turn services off in runlevel 2.

Not sure what you have in mind, but one way to get root would be to have yad start a terminal that runs su -c 'init 3' and then it'll ask for root pass in the terminal. If you don't want the user to see a terminal, I think you can use yad to take a password and feed it to the command. I'm not as clear on this. See /usr/lib/refracta2usb/functions/function.mkloop around lines 104 and 176 for an example.

Turn them off in runlevel 2, and then the command to turn them on is

init 3

2. Put

RESUME=none

in /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume and then run

update-initramfs -u

If you want to hibernate to disk, replace "none" with the uuid of your swap partition.

4. When you install task-*-desktop, your dependencies have dependencies. It's easier to remove stuff if you start minimal and add only what you need. This might solve the pipewire problem - you can have alsa without the "p".

Synaptic: if you modded /etc/default/su you can just get a root terminal and run

synaptic

It is still around, but it's not in the repo. That would require some re-coding, and I'm afraid to mess with it.
This is only useful for live-isos, not for installer isos:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/refrac … b/download

PCManFM 1.3.2 in daedalus, and I see no third option in the right-click menu. Just folder or file are the choices.

You should be able to get to a boot device menu by pressing F12 or possibly some other key. The POST screen will tell you.

How did you prepare the live usb? Do you have another computer to test the usb stick to make sure it boots?

I'm bored so I'm making a proto-vuudo-32-bit system. I'll share it with you if you want to dress it up and take it out. Or you could do your own. One problem with this plan that I see is that there doesn't seem to be a 32-bit appimage of firefox. I spent zero time looking for a workaround to this issue.

The Procedure:
Boot your vuudo iso in qemu or vbox and run

dpkg --get-selections > pkglist64

Copy that file out of the VM so you can use it.
Edit the file to change :amd64 to :i386 and rename it to pkglist32 (or whatever you want)
Change the kernel to linux-image-686-pae and comment out the specific kernel version and the linux-libc-dev lines around it.
Comment out liblsan0, libtsan0 something-ubuntu-font and everything with refracta in the name. The ''dpkg --set-selections command below will puke on any missing packages and tell you in case I missed any. (like yad for instance)

Make a virtual disk.
Boot a live-iso and do a deboostrap install of 32-bit jessie in the virtual disk. I used a refracta_11 i386 iso for this.
Copy the pkglist32 into the debootstrap dir.
Chroot the new system and set root password, create user, add jessie-security line to sources.list, create or copy /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00norecommends and run

apt-get update
apt-get install dselect
dselect update
dpkg --set-selections < pkglist32
apt-get -u dselect upgrade

It failed. I said "no" when it asked if I agreed to the license for firmware-ipw2x00. I think it's working the second time. I had to do
dpkg --clear-selections && dpkg --set-selections < pkglist32 to get the dselect-upgrade to work. (I think it's working. not done yet.)

Update: It installed, but it's not booting. First there was no initramfs and i got a kernel panic, now I made one and I get to initramfs prompt.
Time for sleep. Maybe I'll dream the solution.

I can't think of what you need to edit other than /etc/default/grub to enable os-prober so that when you run update-grub on your minimal partition, it will automatically add entries for all your other installed systems...   unless they have an encrypted root partition. In that case, you would need to create some menu entries in /etc/grub.d/40-custom. Write them to use the /vmlinuz and /initrd.img links in each of the systems so you don't have to keep changing it with every kernel upgrade.

Re: Vuu-do - I think greenjeans managed to remove all the hidden fat. He was ruthless. Boot the iso and get a list of installed packages to use as a guide for what to install. Dig into old posts to read about how it was made.

I think the last we heard about Star was in February.
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=48432#p48432

115.8.0esr in excalibur works correctly. It has the "Firefox View" icon in the upper left.

128.3.1esr in the same excalibur also works correctly. This one has a folder icon in the upper left that says "View recent browsing..."

I tried the newer version both by closing the window and by killing firefox from a terminal. Both worked correctly.