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Hummer12007 / brightnessctl

A program to read and control device brightness
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Add permissions mention to man page #109

Open markio00 opened 1 month ago

markio00 commented 1 month ago

Would love to see the very useful considerations on permissions relayed in the man page as permissions issues could be confusing at first on such a utility.

Love the project btw

xdbob commented 1 month ago

IMHO: systemd-enabled distributions should build brightnessctl with logind support, meaning that when the user is physically logged into his machine he should not have permission issue witch should cover most use cases.

I know that at least ubuntu doesn't ship logind support (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/brightnessctl/+bug/2076317 ) but archlinux and fedora do