I'm no expert, but here's some general advice that you did not indicate if you already know.
Input device drivers for X11 are usually stored in packages named xserver-xorg-input-*, so xserver-xorg-input-wacom sounds like what you would want for just the raw input.

$ apt-cache search wacom
kde-config-tablet - implements a KDE configuration GUI for the Wacom drivers
libwacom-bin - Wacom model feature query library -- binaries
libwacom-common - Wacom model feature query library (common files)
libwacom-dev - Wacom model feature query library (development files)
libwacom2 - Wacom model feature query library
libwacom2-dbg - Wacom model feature query library (debug files)
xserver-xorg-input-wacom - X.Org X server -- Wacom input driver

What you could do on your Mint install is to look for what binary runs the graphical window of your tablet configurator, and see if we can find that in the Devuan repos. If nothing else, you could try the kde-config-tablet to see if that gets you what you want in a Devuan environment.

Wow, that one is ideal! I wish I had thought of it. I migrated through the Xfce DE and didn't even think of that one. Xfce's applications are really neat. I successfully installed xfce4-settings and it didn't bring in the entire desktop environment. It only brought in a few things for this one application.

What I had found on the Internet at large is https://github.com/i026e/mime_types_editor which is written in GTK3+ and Python3.

Well, are you looking to just disable the screensaver completely? Just remove xscreensaver from whatever startup scripts or xdg autostart type stuff you have.
If you want it disabled only when running kodi, you could investigate running the command

xscreensaver-command -deactivate

periodically somehow.
I found that at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XS … a_playback, which had other ideas. It looks like Arch Linux also bundles up https://github.com/graysky2/kodi-prevent-xscreensaver which is really just a shell script which runs the above command every so many seconds.

Do a reality check. Does the audio work in other programs? Does the audio work on other sites. Do the speakers or headphones work when plugged in to another system that plays sound? Also, sometimes I get confused about how many different levels to set in the various mixer programs. Maybe there's a different slider you need to adjust as well as master.

Woops, I got this too, in an Ascii 2.0 installer. Guess I need to get the latest install media. I did remember that something was up with the "us.deb.devuan.org" stuff so I picked pkgmaster...

I am not an expert, nor do I have any say in what Devuan does as a community. As I understand it, Devuan exists as a systemd-free fork of Debian. Debian uses the Linux kernel (primarily), so that's what Devuan will use.

The idea of using Rust in the kernel sounds really scary to me, if only because of the fast-moving nature of that project/language. I compile Waterfox (based on Mozilla Firefox) on a regular basis, and half the time, the project fails to compile because it has not been updated yet for the latest version of rust, or it has been updated and my distros (not just Devuan) are not yet up-to-date on Rust packages.

I think the switch of Hyperbola to a BSD base is amusing, because Project Trident is switching to the Linux kernel (Void Linux distro) from FreeBSD (TrueOS). But I'm glad all these projects feel that the switch is feasible.

I could see this alternative alternatives thing being adapted by other distros, say, ones that claim to "support exploring alternatives" (no pun intended, haha).

And I think it's cool that he's working on POSIX shell for everything. Portability is great. However, in my own recent experience, shell speed is an order of magnitude slower for certain things like text parsing, than python. There's a reason some things are written in real programming languages...

Does anyone have any experience to share, about if the kiss package manager is faster than yum?

I'm hardly technical in this regard, but to expand on what golinux just said, elogind helps manage user sessions, primarily for X desktop applications' ability to log out/shut down/etc.

Would there be interest in the Devuan community for a maintainer of an xdgmenumaker dpkg? I like it enough that I am willing to read through the process for how to be a maintainer, and volunteer to participate if I can agree with all the T&Cs, if there is enough community desire for the package.

In the mean time, I've built it on my OBS: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show … gmenumaker if people want an easy download. My package adds a trigger on /usr/share/applications, and a corresponding postinst script:

#!/bin/sh
# xdgmenumaker postinst

case "$1" in
   triggered)
      Xvfb :18 &
      result=$!
      export DISPLAY=:18
      for word in fluxbox ;
      do
         /usr/bin/xdgmenumaker -f "${word}" -i > "/etc/xdgmenumaker/${word}" 2>/dev/null
      done
      kill $result
      ;;
   *)
      :
      ;;
esac

Which could easily be adapted to just run for any set of WMs.

A weakness this has, is that it is run as root, and therefore will not make a single suitable fluxbox menu file that also reads the users' $XDG_DATA_DIR or similar values. So in my ~/.fluxbox/startup file I have:

/usr/bin/xdgmenumaker -f fluxbox -i > ~/.fluxbox/xdg-menu &

And of course in ~/.fluxbox/menu

[begin] (fluxbox)
[include] (.fluxbox/xdg-menu)
#[include] (/etc/xdgmenumaker/fluxbox)
[include] (/etc/X11/fluxbox/fluxbox-menu)
[end]

We have a gtk3-nocsd package?! A few months ago I spent a little bit of time drooling over gtk3-mushrooms but gave up because I have a large fleet of systems and I don't want to do one-offs.

This gtk3-nocsd thing is inspiring! Thanks.

Also, help2man sounds legit! I have conducted a brief Internet search and don't see any debhelper guidelines for help2man. I found https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-b … it/075d944 as an example, so it looks like one just uses help2man manually in a Makefile (or perhaps rules)?

Actually, this tool will transform how I write my --help screens... who doesn't want an auto-generated man page?! Regardless of whatever happens with this systemdtl abomination, help2man is a definite positive thing I've learned.