I don't think that the user has to be on that group, anymore. There's "thinkpad-keys" (from hotkey-setup) which is running as root, and it is working as a middle-man between the user and nvram. I have to double check, because I had a xosd-setup before and my uid is in nvram-group..
-- thinkpad nvram nod read-enabled by default https://launchpad.net/bugs/31778 -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
