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viptux

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Registered: 2025-05-06

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Re: How to Install XLibre on Devuan Daedalus (MATE)?

Performed fresh excalibur KVM installation this morning. (base no-gui)
Added xlibre repo as noted.

Manually installed: alsa pipewire slim spice-vdagent xfce4 & xlibre
Everything be weking well - No issues observed !

Much appreciate the choice of libre xserver for Devuan !!

Last edited by viptux (2025-08-27 04:05:22)

greenjeans

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Registered: 2017-04-07

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Re: How to Install XLibre on Devuan Daedalus (MATE)?

Testing iso uploaded, for Excalibur not Daedalus:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/vuu-do … te-mini-6/

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zapper

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Registered: 2017-05-29

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Re: How to Install XLibre on Devuan Daedalus (MATE)?

If its a choice between xlibre and wayland, I would choose xlibre probably.

Wayland is a mess and I have a feeling it has some secret problems that redhat hasn't mentioned deliberately

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