Hi aitor, i will have to try your popupmenu, thanks.

You need to investigate what these commands are doing and learn how to use them first but as a guide research the following set of commands to suit your setup.

As ROOT - Check first.

a.

ip link show

b.

ip link set wlan0 up

c.

iw wlan0 link

d.

iw wlan0 scan

Then...

1.

wpa_passphrase ESSID >> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
[enter pass]

2.

 wpa_supplicant -B -D wext -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

3.

dhclient wlan0

Always check and study the very useful documentation that come with packages if available in a terminal like man wpa_supplicant or man wpa_passphrase    man wpa_supplicant.conf

Gojira - Shooting Star!

Very well made audio....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QPWyFBP6WU

Since i am using a no dbus version of refracta i cant install gksu or synaptic.

So my workaround is this as i use startx and have no desktop environment/login manager.

1.
(not sure if this a good idea, probably not but i have to as im not using gksu/pkexec/dbus etc)
Edit sudoers as per below.

[your username] ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/apt, /usr/bin/apt-get

2.
edit .bashrc and add at the end of file...

sudo apt-get -u upgrade --assume-no

So what this does is that everytime you open your terminal it will check upgrades but not install them. That is if you are terminal user and i like to have the terminal autostart when i arrive at the desktop so this is a perfect solution for me.

Just these which you mentioned earlier in the thread. Thank fsmithred.

$ dpkg -l | grep dbus
ii  libdbus-1-3:amd64                                           1.10.22-1+devuan1                  amd64        simple interprocess messaging system (library)
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2:amd64                                      0.108-2                            amd64        simple interprocess messaging system (GLib-based shared library)

In regards to getting wifi connected im doing it manually via wpa supplicant, would there be a way to wrap the commands into a script for use in say yad. I suppose there is an auto start feature somewhere that i havent found. I have to put the device up and then dhclient wlan0 via root each time.wpa_supplicant seems to be set up ok and working fine. I could not figure out setnet.sh , when i tried to Start  Bring the interface up (using "ip link set <DEVNAME> up") it would do nothing, so it stalled there because if i cant get the device up then its no use going forward.

regards

PS:

Found this little script, does the job. I suppose i could make it an autostart item in /etc/xdg/openbox/autostart

What are your thoughts?

#!/bin/bash
kill $(ps -e |grep wpa |grep -oP '\d{3,}')
wpa_supplicant -B -D wext -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
dhclient wlan0 -v
ping 8.8.8.8 -c 3

Decided to re visit this.

Ive installed latest version of tint2 [16.6],obmenu-generator,compton,nitrogen and veracrypt (veracrypt tar from upstream manually installed). Im just wondering if im still dbus free though? Is there a way to check? Ive not touched apt/sources.list.

+1 for Palemoon.

Interesting resource here: http://thereisonlyxul.org/

In my opinion, for that laptop you may be better off using a rolling release linux with latest kernels. Not to say that Devuan would not be able to run it, i have no experience in newer types of laptops. You might try artix linux if you dont want systemd as init. They are breaking new ground and are pretty close to staying on par with arch linux.
https://artixlinux.org/

Miyo is good, you should play around in there first and have a look at what Miyo has done with configs and such and make it your own then try out a base install. You can scale Miyo down or up as long as you know what you are doing.

Do you have an nvidia graphics card?

I find the program inxi can help a lot with getting much needed info on my system.

If you have backports enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list you should be able to download a current version of inxi.(if you want to).

sudo apt-get -t ascii install inxi

then in terminal after the inxi program has installed, as user (not root).

inxi -GSMr

That command gives quite a comprehensive overview,, you should man inxi before you post results to know what is being displayed.

Maybe below code snippet has something to do with it. Its loading glamorgl module but its not working.

Sorry i cant be of anymore help as i am really not sure and dont want to help break your system. Maybe someone else has a better idea of a fix for this.

One last thing that might help is to check and see whats inside /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ if anything.

[    57.658] (II) Loading sub module "glamoregl"
[    57.658] (II) LoadModule: "glamoregl"
[    57.658] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libglamoregl.so
[    57.663] (II) Module glamoregl: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[    57.663] 	compiled for 1.19.2, module version = 1.0.0
[    57.663] 	ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
[    57.663] (II) glamor: OpenGL accelerated X.org driver based.
[    57.678] (II) glamor: EGL version 1.4 (DRI2):
[    57.680] (II) modeset(0): glamor initialized
[    57.688] (WW) glamor0: Failed to get GLSL version
[    57.688] (EE) modeset(0): Failed to initialize glamor at ScreenInit() time.

Maybe try another media player application and see if it gives the same errors, try MPV media player.

# apt-get install mpv