It's fun! :) And perhaps somebody else with a similar problem finds this
thread.
Ah, I guess the redirect (the >) might again be causing trouble...
The fix is fortunately easy, just open the text editor of your preference and
put that command there and save the file somewhere. Then we need to make the
file executable, that's done with the commandchmod +x
/path/to/the/fileFinally point the shortcut key to that file.
To automate the chown thing, you need to open a text editor as a super user.
(Prepend the name of the editor with sudo in case of CLI editors and with
gksudo in case of graphical editors, e.g. sudo nano or gksudo gedit) Then
save this script to /etc/rc2.d/S99-brightness
#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: easy access to brightness control
# Required-Start: $all
# Required-Stop:
# Default-Start: 2
# Default-Stop:
# Short-Description: Make brightness user writeable
### END INIT INFO
chown jane:jane /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness
And make it executablechmod +x /etc/rc2.d/S99-brightness
Now the next time you boot you should find yourself the owner of the
brightness file.
If you want we can make you two scripts that incrementally increase and
decrease brightness like things work normally that you can bind to the
related buttons/key combos.
