@golinux

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I was using 2.0 media. I will correct my sources.list.

Thanks for the reply. I looked at Distrowatch which did not include Budgie as a desktop, but then again Distrowatch is hardly definitive.

I found two ISOs that look promising, netinst and minimal. Is the latter an Openbox installation? I'd prefer to not install a complex desktop I will never use. Openbox is just enough to get around.

I'm posting one last time to to note that the beep did not disappear completely. Every now and then the beep will sound. Maybe someday I'll determine the pattern, but for now I'll remove my headphones before shutting-down.

"instantly be able to view other people who you can chat with, find printers to print to or find files being shared."

None of the above are things I want, especially the first and third. I realize I'm in the minority, however. This particular library offers printing from personal laptops, something not always offered by libraries. The funny thing is that this library offers apps for printing from Windows and MacOS only, but given how similar avahi and bonjour are, I'm not surprised Devuan is able to communicate with the printers. I'll never understand why printers are added and deleted, when one would assume printers would be added only. The other library I use does not offer Wi-Fi printing, which explains a lot, I think.

@mmaglis   I appreciate your suggestions. One of the first things I tried was disabling Bluetooth in BIOS, but there was no setting to do so. On my laptop, an HP ProBook, Bluetooth is handled by the wireless card. This is what made this exercise so frustrating, as I had already disabled that wireless card to use an ASUS USB wireless adapter. If the on-board card was disabled, how the heck was Bluetooth even running?

I looked at uninstalling avahi, but then I discovered that libavahi is something that Audacious, Brasero, Cinnamon, and many other packages depend upon. avahi seems like a mini-systemd.

The notifications continue to arrive, so uninstalling bluez is not the solution. I will look at avahi to see if I can configure it differently. I also will look at the system logs of my Linux Mint system, as maybe it has been doing this all along and I never knew it. This behavior only happens at one library I use.

Someone asked a related question on the avahi mailing list in December, but no one responded.
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/ … 02528.html

This exercise made me understand just a little how much work Devuan developers must undertake to remove the insideous systemd (Darn you, Lennart Poettering!) from Debian. I for one appreciate what the community does.

Thanks for the help so far.

@ToxicExMachina

I removed bluez, which resulted in about five Bluetooth packages being removed. I'll use the laptop for a day or two and see if the notifications stop.

@fsmithred

avahi was developed by Lennart Poettering! Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

I'll see what happens with bluez being uninstalled, but avahi might just have to go too.

Thanks for the reply. Install the default gtk-greeter? I just did a standard install. I tried adding "greeter-hide-users=false" to both of the files, but that did nothing.

Thanks for the reply. It seems so obvious in hindsight. I will play with the menus.

The more I learn about Linux, the less I realize I know.

It's in mate-themes? How bizarre, given that I always install mate-themes on Linux Mint.

And the fact that it's in metacity-theme-1.xml format means that Cinnamon has already dropped support for it.

Thanks for the pathnames. Now I can search myself.

UPDATE: I went back and looked at Linux Mint. Now I understand why I never noticed Shiny. In Devuan, it's depicted as it would be on the screen, with a blue border, but in Linux Mint, it's depicted as all gray, which usually means (in my experience) that the theme either does not work properly or is actually all gray. Chalk one up for Devuan.