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damieng / setledsmac

Set your keyboard LEDs from the Mac OS X command-line
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How do I run this program? #8

Closed michelkoga closed 6 years ago

michelkoga commented 6 years ago

Sorry for my lack of knowledge, but how do I run this program in my mac?

damieng commented 6 years ago

The steps are:

  1. Download the .tar.gz from https://github.com/damieng/setledsmac/releases/latest
  2. Double-click on the .tar.gz to unpack it
  3. Open up a Terminal window on your Mac (Applications > Utilities > Terminal)
  4. Type ~/Downloads/setleds +caps for example to turn the caps LED on

If you get an error on line 4 about permissions then you'll have to run it with sudo ~/Downloads/setleds +caps and type in your password - this is because newer versions of macOS have made the API necessary to interact with the low-level devices administrator-only.