Their goal is 100% free software, no blobs. That's implied in their desire to obtain RYF ("Respects Your Freedom") certification from the FSF--if there are blobs anywhere, FSF will not certify the phone.

This from their FAQ:

I don't like the vague "we will continue to evaluate the WiFi and Bluetooth cards". That needs some clarification.

Nevertheless, I think this effort deserves to be supported: How many phone developers have ever said "we intend to invest time and money toward freeing any non-free firmware...and the end goal for us is to gain RYF [certification]"?

P.S. I realize that this is a longshot given that Replicant has been at it for many years and has yet to deliver a libre phone where everything (including WiFi and Bluetooth) works. Nevertheless, I'm cautiously optimistic about the Librem5 given that, unlike Replicant, Purism will be building the phone themselves out of components they have selected/made.

Here's version 2.0, with cleaner logic and a new feature: Cursor disappears during video/audio playback (requires that the "unclutter" package be installed).

#!/bin/bash

while true; do
    sleep 10
    if grep -q RUNNING /proc/asound/card*/pcm*/sub*/status; then # there is sound, so we want "movie mode"...
        # xscreensaver nudge:
        /usr/bin/xscreensaver-command -deactivate
        # screensaver-agnostic nudge:
        # xdotool key Pause
        pgrep unclutter || unclutter & # if unclutter isn't running, start it
    else # there is no sound, so no "movie mode"...
        pgrep unclutter && pkill unclutter # if unclutter is running, kill it
    fi
done

Ditto! I love stable and boring. It's nice to turn my computer on and know exactly what to expect day to day. I'm perfectly happy with Devuan Jessie

Here's a cornucopia of online texts:
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-best- … -hand-outs

I think I'm going to give up on finding a hardcopy book. I've been looking around for three days and the books that look interesting are at least 10 years old

I found this: http://lartc.org/howto/

Almost exactly what I'm looking for, but hoping to find a hard copy book.

@fungus: Fair enough.

Back to the problem at hand. I definitely found a pattern: When the laptop is on AC power, the USB 3.0 ports on the ExpressCard work just fine. Strange that the card slot doesn't provide the card enough power to work when on battery power, since my battery is in good condition. Oh, well. I'll mark the issue as "solved".

Devuan comes with dbus by default. I can confirm that dbus-daemon is running on my Devuan Jessie installation.

When I plug the same thumbdrive into a USB 2.0 port, it automounts to /media (specifically, to /media/bruno/PATRIOT).

I'm happy to hear that you're in good shape, and that these issues are not present in ascii

Adding the "unset" line to /usr/bin/thunderbird is a good idea with one caveat: An upgrade to TB will overwrite the file. A wrapper script is ugly but upgrades will leave it alone.

BTW, I tried uninstalling gnome-keyring to see what would happen (i.e., to see if I could get away with not having a wrapper script). Unfortunately, it seems that network-manager requires gnome-keyring (or the like) to prompt for wifi passwords.

If I understood the discussion here correctly (see Hans' post at the very bottom of page 1), it seems that currently there are two options for getting full Enigmail functionality without interfering with packages that need a keyring:

(1) Leave gnome-keyring installed, requiring a wrapper script for Thunderbird (as I outlined in #5 above)
or
(2) Uninstall gnome-keyring, install the better-behaved mate-keyring, dump the wrapper script. The fly in the ointment is that mate-keyring is deprecated and no longer in Debian/Devuan repositories--it would require finding it somewhere and downloading it.

Between using a wrapper script or using a deprecated package not in the repository, the wrapper script option seems to better follow the KISS principle.

If anyone can think of a way to get gnome-keyring to stay out of Enigmail's way without resorting to a TB wrapper script, please do tell.

PS: Armin, I just realized that my previous post did not answer your questions.

In my case, Enigmail was not upgraded automatically because it was installed from within Thunderbird. I'm not a Devuan developer, so if you had Enigmail 1.8.2 installed as a .deb package then I do not know why it wasn't upgraded along with Thunderbird. Even if they both had been upgraded together, however, I am finding that Thunderbird 52.2.1-4 + Enigmail 1.9.8 break ability to send signed messages.

My "nasty hack" contribution: A startup script that runs your custom shutdown/reboot jobs (yes, you read that correctly ).

#!/bin/bash

payload()
{
    command_or_script1
    command_or_script2
    command_or_scriptN
}
trap payload TERM

kill -SIGSTOP $$

To use it, just add this script to your startup applications and replace the placeholders with the commands or scripts you want to run at shutdown/reboot.

How it works: When executed, the script immediately stops itself. It stays in stopped state while system is running (or suspended). When you shutdown or reboot your system, every process (including stopped ones) is sent the TERM signal. In the case of this script, when it receives the TERM signal it runs the payload function containing your shutdown/reboot jobs.

What inspired this hack is the fact that it always seems easier to setup startup jobs than shutdown/reboot jobs.

Yes! This caused thumbnails to show up for everything:

rm -r ~/.cache/thumbnails