From: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>
To: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de>
Cc: 22952@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22952: MacBook2, 1 brightness control requires root privileges
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2022 00:46:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86tuej9i8h.fsf_-_@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201119183929.gsxe3rv5fehrwen5@pelzflorian.localdomain> (pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de's message of "Thu, 19 Nov 2020 19:39:29 +0100")
Hi,
I am doing triage of old bug and I hit this one [1]. Is it still happening?
1: <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/22952>
On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 at 19:39, "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian@pelzflorian.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 10:14:32PM +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
>> To work around it locally, try adding:
>>
>> (simple-service 'gsd-polkit polkit-service-type
>> (list gnome-settings-daemon))
>>
>> to the (services ...) section of your system configuration.
>
> Thank you. You are correct for GDM. Adding this fixes changing the
> backlight in GDM. Perhaps the GDM service should extend the polkit
> service like that. It also does not conflict with adding a
> gnome-service-type.
>
> MATE still complains. Without changing services, normally both on the
> first log-in to MATE and on subsequent log-ins, when pressing the keys
> to change the backlight, a message window still tells me that
> /gnu/store/5kmmwc9q23lihpy3nv2knbvsr9qv2aln-mate-power-manager-1.24.2/sbin/mate-power-backlight-helper
> needs to be authenticated as the super user; I need to enter the
> password.
>
> Only with gnome-service-type and when not removing the GDM service,
> after GDM (which uses the gsd), on the first log-in to the MATE
> desktop, the backlight keys do nothing at all. When I try to log out,
> it says Power Manager is not responding. When I force the log-out
> despite the Power Manager, then log back in, I again get the message
> each time I press the backlight keys.
>
> I added:
>
> (simple-service 'mate-power-polkit polkit-service-type
> (list mate-power-manager))
>
> It does not work.
Especially, many things had been improved since 2020. :-)
Let close it or provide more details for fixing it. ;-)
Cheers,
simon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-04 23:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-08 22:50 bug#22952: MacBook2,1 brightness control requires root privileges Albin
2016-03-09 13:21 ` bug#22952: MacBook2, 1 " Ludovic Courtès
2017-04-19 22:23 ` bug#22952: Macbook2,1 " Joshua Branson
2017-04-20 8:45 ` bug#22952: Macbook2, 1 " Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-17 21:23 ` bug#22952: Backlight brightness keys in GDM and MATE require password authentication pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-11-18 21:14 ` Marius Bakke
2020-11-19 18:39 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-01-04 23:46 ` zimoun [this message]
2022-01-06 12:30 ` bug#22952: MacBook2, 1 brightness control requires root privileges pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
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