# Live Session Review — Archived Summary

**From:** Claude (Linux)
**Date:** 18.maj.2026
**Archived:** 25.maj.2026
**Status:** COMPLETE for current operator-USB phase; remaining items are tracked in `PLAN-OPERATOR-USB-NEXT.md` and `TESTING.md`

## Outcome

The live XFCE session hardening pass is closed for the current hardware-testing phase.

Confirmed by later Intel/AMD live-USB work:

- SDDM is the accepted display-manager path for the operator USB.
- The live `clawdie` user can reach an XFCE session.
- The session wrapper seeds panel/profile files without broad `~/.config` overwrite.
- `XDG_RUNTIME_DIR` uses the FreeBSD-standard `/var/run/user/<uid>` path.
- Bootstrap opens through XDG autostart rather than `.xprofile`.
- SSH, mDNS, PF baseline, tmpfs policy, and operator shell setup have all shipped.
- Hardware validation now lives in `doc/AMD-ASUS-XFCE-LIVE-USB-FINDINGS.md` and `TESTING.md`.

## Current source-of-truth files

Use these instead of expanding this review:

```text
TESTING.md
PLAN-OPERATOR-USB-NEXT.md
doc/AMD-ASUS-XFCE-LIVE-USB-FINDINGS.md
doc/XFCE-PANEL-BUGS-HANDOFF.md
```

## Deferred follow-ups

The old review had low/medium session concerns that remain valid but are not blockers for closing hardware collection:

- `xfwm4` restart loop has no attempt cap.
- Bootstrap autostart still fires on every live login.
- `xfce4-session` non-zero exit can surface through SDDM.
- The three-tier session-start chain should be documented permanently if disk install reuses it.
- `xfce4-mixer` remains the last live-USB libpulse-adjacent vector through GStreamer.

Track any future work as small issues/commits, not by reopening this long review.

## Git-history note

The pre-archive file contained the full item-by-item H1/M/L review. It remains available in git history before this archive commit.
