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Author: aitor_czr
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To: Boruch Baum, dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Unofficial Devuan live images


On 05/09/2016 01:27 AM, aitor_czr <aitor_czr@???> wrote:
>> FWIW, +1 for lightdm. I switched in order to get keyboard and mouse
>> >navigation to the greeter options. For integration with xfce, I did
>> >need to perform a few extra steps. From memory, the 'switch user'
>> >feature needed to be altered to use 'dm-tool' instead of
>> >'gdmflexiserver', I ended up totally removing xfce4-power-manager and
>> >its panel applet in favor acpid-only and the xfce battery applet, and
>> >probably other stuff that I just don't remember.
>> >
>> >The newer versions of Lightdm (I think its available in the testing
>> >repo) allows for a webkit-based greeter for more eye-candy if that's
>> >of interest to you, and also offers a gui configuration tool that's
>> >pretty neat.
>> >
>> >There's a 'light-locker' screen locking program that installs along
>> >with lightdm, which includes a protection feature against X-M-Fn
>> >switching. A complaint I have against it is that it doesn't seem to
>> >offer anything other than a blank screen (no screensaver visual
>> >feedback or eye-candy), and it doesn't switch to a greeter screen
>> >until a delay after one begins typing, so one can easily misinterpret
>> >the screen lock as some form of BSOD (blank screen of death).
>> >
>> >On 2016-05-08 10:14, fsmithred wrote:
>>>> >> >On 05/08/2016 08:24 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>>>>>> >>> > >
>>>>>> >>> > >So I google etc/slim.conf to fid out what it is, and on the first
>>>>>> >>> > >link I find Warning: The SliM project has been abandoned (the
>>>>>> >>> > >project homepage is down, leaving a github mirror),
>>>>>> >>> > >
>>>>>> >>> > >That's on the archwiki
>>>>>> >>> > >
>>>>>> >>> > >https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SLiM
>>>>>> >>> > >
>>>>>> >>> > >They also warn that it's incompatible with systemd.
>>>>>> >>> > >
>>>>>> >>> > >I hope that's an arch-specific abandonment.
>>>>>> >>> > >The gentoo page doesn't have this warning.
>>>>>> >>> > >
>>>>>> >>> > >-- hendrik
>>>>>> >>> > >
>>>>>> >>> > >
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> >The github mirror has a readme that says: "Note: This repository was
>>>> >> >used as backup source and is no longer maintained."
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> >I'm using lightdm here. Didn't have to do anything special to get it
>>>> >> >to work without systemd. Don't even have libsystemd0 installed on
>>>> >> >this box.
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> >-fsr
> My vote is also for lightdm, it allows you to switch the
> desktop-environment, the language and the keyboard configuration.
>
> Cheers,
>
>     Aitor.

>
> P.D.- I'm trying with the beta of gnuinos, but debmirror doesn't work:(


Now, debmirror works:

debmirror -h ftp.es.mirror.devuan.org \
           --dist=jessie \
           --root=/merged \
           --di-arch=i386,amd64,armhf \
           --section=main/debian-installer \
           --nosource \
           --progress \
           --ignore-release-gpg \
           --method http \
           --diff=none \
           /home/aitor/devuan-repo


The issue was related with the rejection of rsync :)

Cheers,

Aitor.