Re: Authentication prompt when changing brightness

2019-10-15 Thread David Wilson
On Mon, Oct 14, 2019, at 9:55 AM, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > > Thanks for looking into it, David! > My pleasure! I've sent a patch to guix-patches to fix this issue in the XFCE service: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-patches/2019-10/msg00348.html Thanks again to Jesse and Vagrant for

Re: Authentication prompt when changing brightness

2019-10-14 Thread Maxim Cournoyer
"David Wilson" writes: > On Mon, Oct 7, 2019, at 5:18 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> >> You have to configure the udev rule in your system configuration; using >> the rules shipped with the brightnessctl package works: >> >> (udev-configuration (inherit config) >>

Re: Authentication prompt when changing brightness

2019-10-08 Thread David Wilson
On Mon, Oct 7, 2019, at 5:18 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > You have to configure the udev rule in your system configuration; using > the rules shipped with the brightnessctl package works: > > (udev-configuration (inherit config) > (rules (cons brightn

Re: Authentication prompt when changing brightness

2019-10-07 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2019-10-07, David Wilson wrote: > Should I be able to use "brightnessctl" without sudo if I'm in the > "video" group? Looks like I'm not able to: > > --- > λ brightnessctl set 200 > Can't modify brightness: Permission denied > > You should run this program with root privileges. > Alternatively,

Re: Authentication prompt when changing brightness

2019-10-07 Thread David Wilson
> I have a similar problem. I see an authentication box when I try to adjust > screen brightness on the gdm screen, but not when logged into gnome. Does > this happen when you are logged in? Yeah, it happens when I'm logged in to a custom .xsession where I'm using Emacs as my window manager. I i

Re: Authentication prompt when changing brightness

2019-10-07 Thread Jesse Gibbons
On Mon, 2019-10-07 at 06:25 -0700, David Wilson wrote: > Hi all, > > This is my first attempt at setting up Guix on my machine, so please > forgive me if I've missed anything obvious here. I've noticed that any > time a process tries to set the backlight brightness of my laptop, a root > authentic

Authentication prompt when changing brightness

2019-10-07 Thread David Wilson
Hi all, This is my first attempt at setting up Guix on my machine, so please forgive me if I've missed anything obvious here. I've noticed that any time a process tries to set the backlight brightness of my laptop, a root authentication prompt appears: https://imgur.com/a/vlB7UtN I've seen th