Few days ago, I've gone through full process of installing ED on 2nd device I'm preparing for a family member - I decided to install my image from qole's site instead of copying one I've on device, for testing purposes. Of course, using proper swap-related setting (even despite fact, that 2nd device wasn't having microSD card, so no swap on microSD) I was able to finish process without any problem, from downloading image, unpacking it via LZMA, mounting as loop, to copying everything into dedicated partition (without need to swaponoff).

Overall, qole did awesome job of making it usable for everyone out-of-the-box - separation from Maemo's home/user works flawlessly, setting locales and tzdata took only a minute or so. Ho ever, I've noticed three small regressions, compared to image sitting on my 1st device:

1. /home/user/xbindkeysrc doesn't exist at all. You need to create it from scratch. It makes "Set Debian HW Keys" button desktop shortcut unusable, and of course, doesn't allow to use right-click and similar features inside LXDE. No big deal - everyone can create own .xbindkeysrc file, or use one from this thread/wiki article/whatever.

2. Panels, when hidden, are 10 pixels wide, instead of 2 (minimum). It makes desktop looking little ugly + eats precious space. It's a very minor issue - everyone can customize it via right click on panel -> configure panel -> advanced

3. Icon for orientation switch isn't working (showing standard system icon). This one keeps buggying me - I've FCKN no idea why it doesn't want to work. I've compared orientation.desktop which one from my system, and it's exactly the same. Icon is sitting where it should. I tried messing with xdg-icon-resource, updating it etc, I've tried adding it manually from scratch - no matter what I've tried, this bugger just doesn't show icon. Ho ever, orientation switching itself does work.

If anyone got an idea how to fix it, it will be greatly appreciated. It's just impossible, that it works on 1st device, and doesn't want to work on 2nd.

/Estel

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@ArchiMark
It doesn't sound like ED related. I hope that Your device is working well, now?