Hello:

The system booting and working as expected (?) is a good sign.
Most times [ACPI] warnings are the result of Linux having worked around a badly written BIOS and just informative.
The same can be said by many other 'errors' or 'warnings' present in the [dmesg] output.

Q: Is your BIOS up to date?
ie: last available version.

That said, for anyone to be able to help with your questions, you would have to supply more information.

eg:
- Devuan version installed (please post result of [uname -a])
- full [dmesg] and a short description of the hardware you are installing it on.
- output of [lspci]
- output of [lsusb]

It would seem that your hardware is 'Apple' fare, notorious for not being precisely Linux friendly.
Particularly with respect to motherboard components.

Have you checked on-line as to the degree of compatibility of your specific box with Linux?
eg: T1/T2 chip, touchpads, keyboards, Wi-Fi, sound, webcams and other hardware such as PM sensors/fans.

Best,

A.

Hello:

Note taken.
Will not happen again.

That said, please do read the whole bit, especially these caveats*:

* my fault, I should I have posted [CAVEAT] in capital letters somewhere.

Having made clear that I did not use [wall] or [lightdm], how could it possibly look convincing to me?
I did not look like anything but AI generated stuff, something I disclosed from the start of my post.

As such, my intention was for someone else (ie: who actually knew about the subject) to opine so that a check against what this AI thing actually spewed could be made.

Actually thought it was a good idea.  8^°

Best,

A.

Hello:

Right.

Thank you for taking the time to look that up.
Much obliged.

In the few hours I have been working with it, I have seen that [OpenOffice] starts up, open and saves the same spreadsheet noticeably faster, does not have any (obvious) UI bugs and is working as well as expected.

Just a couple of things to get used to because "muscle memory" (eg: [BackSpace] to delete content from a cell instead of [Delete] which generates a pop-up with options) but nothing important enough to consider going back to [LibreOffice].

On top of that, I do think it has more 'nice-looking' appeal.  8^P

Best,

A.

Hello:

I am hard pressed to get some documents/spreadsheets finished by Monday so decided cut my losses and purge all of [LibreOffice] from my system and install [OpenOffice].

Installation was a breeze, seems to work properly out of the box, did not bitch about anything and opened my spreadsheets without failing in any, both [*.xls] and [*.ods]. I expect that it will be the same with [*.doc] and [*.odt], have not tried yet.

And most gratifying: the problem with [LibreOffice] is not present in [OpenOffice]. 8^D
So, unless something tragic happens, it will be [OpenOffice] from now on.

I really do not need the grief and waste of time this last issue brought me.
Much less if the cause was [LibreOffice] favouring "nice-looking graphics" over a properly working UI.

So I will mark this one as solved.

Thanks to all those who pitched in.

Best,

A.

Hello:

Indeed ...
The 'latest' advancements.

The scourge of IT by another name.
Unjustified "advancements", things no one asked for or needed.

Soon they will add video editing capabilities to it and it will be even more "advanced".
Enshitiffication and bloat just for the sake of it.

Or maybe for the sake of being as much as [MS-Office] as possible?

If I had to choose, the Linux equivalent of the stand alone [MS-Word 6.0] (over 26 years after it was EOL'd.) would still be more than enough for me. I should have a copy somewhere.

Best,

A.

Hello:

I cannot remember what the previous version was.
ie: 7.4.7.1?

I have not been happy with OpenOffice for a good while now.
I managed because I could, but this problem is really very annoying.
Have lost a lot of time (in shrt supply at the moment) trying to find a fix.   

I could try but I could also roll back to the known.
Even the inteface has changed.
eg:
In the previous version I could see a progress bar when it autosaved or I saved a file I was working on.
For whatever reason, that is now gone.
Seems that visual indication of a file being saved is no longer important.

> ... not using the LO version from the repo.
I see.

I'd say my options would be:
1. find a way to safely roll back to the previous repository version (or the one before it) and pin it.
2. install a newer version from the LO repository and pin it, say 7.6.7.2?

Opinion?

Seems that enshittifacion is in full force all over the IT world, if it continues at this pace, we are doomed.

Thanks for your input.

Best,

A.

Hello:

Hmm ....
OK.

For the very first time in over nine years:

- bump>
I have not been able to find anything but complaints about this on the web.
Any ideas?
<bump -

If not, how to properly roll back to the previous version of LibreOffice.

Best,

A.

Hello:

*Everything* helps.
That is what the forum is about.  8^)

I installed [featherpad] from the Devuan repository and it seems to be working as needed.
I (think) I have everything correctly set to UTF-8 which will do.

I see it has more than what I need but it is lightweight and did not pull in anything strange.
Seems there are quite a few Qt libraries in my system.

My needs are circumscribed to the accented vowels I posted previously+the ES [ñ/Ñ].

The rest of the characters provided by the KB are a bonus.

· ½ ¬ { [ ] } \
¬ ¡  ⅛ £ $ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞ ™ ± ° æ ß ð đ ŋ ħ ĸ ł ~
Æ ẞ Ð ª Ŋ Ħ Ł { } \ « » ¢ „ “ ” µ • · | © ‚ ‘ ’ º × ÷

Just have to remember where they are.
So I don't have to cut/paste from the web when I need ©, ™, ± or fractions.  8^°

Thanks for your input.

Best,

A.

Hello:

Thanks for the prompt reply.

No, it does not have the characters I need.

My kb has these characteristics:

$ cat /etc/default/keyboard

# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE
# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.
# Set for IBM 82G3294 Model 'M'
#
XKBMODEL="pc105"
XKBLAYOUT="latam"
XKBVARIANT="deadtilde"
XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_switch,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"

BACKSPACE="guess"

With those settings I can type all the characters I need with locale=[en_GB.UTF+8] on my keyboard which has a Latin American Spanish QWERTY layout, using the [AltGr] key:

á é í ó ú - Á É Í Ó Ú
à è ì ò ù - À È Ì Ò Ù
â ê î ô û - Â Ê Î Ô Û
ä ë ï ö ü - Ä Ë Ï Ö Ü

There are a lot more which I do not use but are surely useful:

¬ ¡ ⅛ £ $ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞ ™ ± ˛
| @ · ~ ½ { [ ] } \ ¸ and others ...

The thing is that I can type the accented characters in and they will render properly but when I try to save the file, I get the popup with the complaint.

I am resorting to [l3afpad] because [X File Writer], part of [XFE], a really nice and compact desktop agnostic file manager, has some issue I cannot solve and typing the characters usong [AltGR] is not working.

It would seem that there is some sort of conflict (sez AI):

and

As a result, every application works with [AltGR] with the exception of [XFW].

[L3afpad] does not seem to have had any updates in over 10 years.

Any ideas?

Best,

A.

Hello:

Seeing that I do not use [gnome-desktop], I don't think I can come up with a reason to need [libreoffice-gnome].

Right.
Thanks for searching (and finding) the cause of this.

It would seem that someone at the [Libre Office] dependencies department is not paying attention to what they are doing.

Have a good week-end. 8^) 

Best,

A.

Hello:

See: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=24694#p24694 and the rest of the thread.

I seem to recall that nvidia-persistenced is a *suggested* package, not sure.

Best,

A.