On Sat, Jan 11, 2025 at 12:34:39AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
> 1) I'm now booting to a text console, logging in manually, and manually
> starting a script that launches ICEWM. The font on the 1920x1080 text
> console is dinky and hard to read. In Gentoo there is a "consolefont"
> service and I've selected /usr/share/consolefonts/solar24x32.psfu.gz
> which is much more readable on a 1920x1080 text console. Is there an
> equivalant in Devuan?

dpkg-reconfigure console-setup

There are quite a few sizes available. I don't know if there are
additional fonts in other packages not installed by default. Maybe you
could copy your favourite over!

> 2) When doing "rc-update" to list running services, I see "avahi-daemon"
> and "pulseaudio-enable-autospawn"!!! Are they really necessary?

Avahi-daemon runs the multicast DNS stack for service discovery
between devices on your LAN (e.g. finding your printer automatically!)
So if you don't want that you can ditch it.

pulseaudio-enable-autospawn is some glue to launch the PulseAudio
servers when an X session starts, but I don't know what works for IceWM
- I'm afraid the audio subsystem is a bit beyond me, as is elogingd!