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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Albin <albin@fripost.org>
Cc: Andy Wingo <wingo@igalia.com>, 22952@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22952: MacBook2, 1 brightness control requires root privileges
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:21:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mvq7dbx0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56DF5744.6000706@fripost.org> (albin@fripost.org's message of "Tue, 8 Mar 2016 23:50:44 +0100")

Albin <albin@fripost.org> skribis:

> I've discovered that the non-working brightness controls for the
> MacBook2,1 are due to insufficient permissions.
>
> The first indication of this was that I could change brightness by
> running the program redshift with root permissions (`sudo redshift`).

Interesting.  I use a simple window manager (ratpoison), and ‘redshift’
works fine as non-root.

> Today I was presented with this dialog box in GNOME 3 after having
> pressed one of the brightness-control keys:
>
> "Authentication is needed to run
> '/gnu/store/[...]-gnome-settings-daemon-3.18.2/libexec/gsd-backlight-helper'
> as the super user.
>
> Administrator
> Password [__________]"

This is something Andy is working on:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-03/msg00247.html

Looks like we’re almost there.  :-)

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-09 13:23 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 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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       ` bug#22952: MacBook2, 1 brightness control requires root privileges zimoun
2022-01-06 12:30         ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)

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