Re: Flashing Keyboard lights as patterns
 

Google for "linux shell script"? :)
Basically you mark a script file as executable and then you can run it.
chmod is your friend.

Re: Flashing Keyboard lights as patterns
 

ah, shiny toys! As an enhancement proposal: if you place a solar cell beside the keyboard during the light show, and wire it up to the phone's power input, you will have cracked the battery life issue too :-)

(sorry, couldn't resist ... I know the LED flashing is just harmless fun, but it did make me smile to run it on a device that is so "mAh-challenged").

Re: Flashing Keyboard lights as patterns
 

This is cool!

Lets see and iphone do this - oh wait it don't have a keyboard! :D

Re: Flashing Keyboard lights as patterns
 

this looks so much better when you do it yourself!

Re: Flashing Keyboard lights as patterns
 

I'm trying to make a KR.desktop entry that will let me run this from a menu Icon, but I'm stuck due to the root access requirement.

I tried making a script that ran something like:

sudo gainroot;/usr/bin/python /opt/liqbase/KR/KR.py
or
sudo gainroot /usr/bin/python /opt/liqbase/KR/KR.py

But that just dumps the script out at a root prompt and fails to execute KR.py until after the root shell is exited.

Is it possible to post a script to that would not require root privileges to flash the keyboard lights?

Re: Flashing Keyboard lights as patterns
 

cddiede the script is a prototype and we are looking at how to enable playing with the lighting combinations without requiring root for every single app that uses it.
tho its most likely going to be a bit tricky

Re: Flashing Keyboard lights as patterns
 

Do an MCE and make a D-Bus service! Or, more simply, just add exceptions in sudoers

Re: Flashing Keyboard lights as patterns
 

afaik, sudoers would work for echoing into sysfs (I have sudo enabled for all binaries)

Edit: wouldn't*

Re: Flashing Keyboard lights as patterns
 

i think MohammadAG is a pretty cool guy
eh runs all binaries as root as doesn't afraid of anything ;)

for normal users however I think a simpler approach would be required.

Re: Flashing Keyboard lights as patterns
 

lol it shouldn't affect security, a lot... :P
should work though

On its own I can't see why it needs a .desktop file and .deb package, otherwise I would've made them. It doesn't even have a GUI (yet)