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bug#22952: MacBook2, 1 brightness control requires root privileges
From: |
zimoun |
Subject: |
bug#22952: MacBook2, 1 brightness control requires root privileges |
Date: |
Wed, 05 Jan 2022 00:46:54 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) |
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
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