Manjaro and sudoers group, let's discuss a solution

[Mrcuve0]

HI! First of all I'd like to thank you for this widget, nice idea and nice realization!

So, a little background I think here is needed. I'm on Manjaro KDE and the plasmoid didn't work correctly: please take a look at this screenshot.

• The sliders are on the left edge (zero position) and the values show a "N/A" value.
• The CPU values are correctly shown (percentage of usage and core frequency).
• The sliders of the CPU section can be modified but they are reverted back to zero at the next refresh.
• Finally the GPU section cannot be modified

So I started checking your script file, enabling and disabling TLP hoping for conflicts, I even tried to run it on a KDE Neon VirtualBox install (although I solved the problem before the installation completion) but nothing happened.

Finally, I checked if my user was correctly added to the sudoers group and I learnt that Arch based distros use the wheel group as a sudoers group, as pointed here.

So, as pointed by the forum, I checked into the /etc/sudoers.d/ folder and changed the content of the file 99-plasma-pstate and changed it from

%sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/gr.ictpro.jsalatas.plasma.pstate/contents/code/set_prefs.sh

to

%wheel ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/gr.ictpro.jsalatas.plasma.pstate/contents/code/set_prefs.sh

Now the plasmoid works correclty.

Actually, I don't know if just adding this new line to the 99-plasma-pstate will solve the problem or if there's a more elegant solution: for example we could also check if the user runs on manjaro or arch and then decide what to do.

[jsalatas]

Thanks for your feedack!

The changes I just committed should handle the issue.