On Thu, 2018-05-24 at 14:55 +0200, Aaron Marcher wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > i have implemented basic support for the backlight function on
> > OpenBSD. The problem here is that /dev/ttyC0 permission is 600
> > (root:wheel) so a user cannot read from the device without
> > changing
> > the permission
On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 02:55:28PM +0200, Aaron Marcher wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > i have implemented basic support for the backlight function on OpenBSD.
> > The problem here is that /dev/ttyC0 permission is 600 (root:wheel) so a
> > user cannot read from the device without changing the permission or
>
Hi,
i have implemented basic support for the backlight function on
OpenBSD. The problem here is that /dev/ttyC0 permission is 600
(root:wheel) so a user cannot read from the device without changing
the permission or running slstatus as root.
Running slstatus as root is no real option -
On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 08:41:17PM +0200, Tobias Tschinkowitz wrote:
> Anyway, this is just an proposal. Hopefully there is
> another solution to solve this. I know that we could also do this by
> linking against xcb-xrandr (like xbacklight does) but i think we should
> not do this for now.
On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 04:30:41PM -0300, lucas wrote:
Lucas,
> Tobias,
>
> > See my notes below the commit message of the patch.
>
> I saw the note just after sending the email. My bad. Still, I think that
> slstatus shouldn't be run as root. It would be nice to find a workaround
> when
Tobias,
> See my notes below the commit message of the patch.
I saw the note just after sending the email. My bad. Still, I think that
slstatus shouldn't be run as root. It would be nice to find a workaround
when launching X from xenodm.
> Updated diff below.
>
> diff --git
On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 03:57:37PM -0300, lucas wrote:
> Hi Tobias,
>
> Two notes below
>
> > diff --git a/components/backlight.c b/components/backlight.c
> > index f9c4096..21e06a1 100644
> > --- a/components/backlight.c
> > +++ b/components/backlight.c
> > @@ -29,4 +29,30 @@
> >
> >
Hi Tobias,
Two notes below
> diff --git a/components/backlight.c b/components/backlight.c
> index f9c4096..21e06a1 100644
> --- a/components/backlight.c
> +++ b/components/backlight.c
> @@ -29,4 +29,30 @@
>
> return bprintf("%d", cur * 100 / max);
> }
> +
> +#elif
implemented openbsd support for the backlight function.
this only works when running slstatus as superuser.
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Hi Guys,
i have implemented basic support for the backlight function on OpenBSD.
The problem here is that /dev/ttyC0 permission is 600 (root:wheel) so a
user cannot read from the
