Run GUI as non-root about lenovolegionlinux HOT 5 CLOSED

Good idea. This would also make it possible to create working a system tray menu.

Do you have an idea how to implement it? Do you know other programs that have to deal with the same problem and already found a solution?

How to run the root program?

1. Start a background process running as root and a GUI process running as user. One might have to start the program with root which spans the GUI process with user privileges. Or the GUI program is started with user privileges and asks for a password to start the root program.
2. Start a root process each time a file with root access is written. That is almost any time a attribute of the laptop if changed. The user might be asked each time.
3. Other possibilities?

How to do communication between GUI process and root process?

1. DBUS between GUI process and root process. Security? Then every other program might talk to root process.
2. XMLRPC between GUI process and root process. Security? Then every other program might talk to root process.
3. Other possibilities?

from lenovolegionlinux.

The gui now a day can be run as root and non root the packager can alter the python setup.cfg file to not install the files needed to run as root.
@ulrikstrid @johnfanv2 you think this issue can be close?

from lenovolegionlinux.

@MrDuartePT is it documented somewhere how to package it without needing root? If so I can try to do that for NixOS

from lenovolegionlinux.

@ulrikstrid you can run the gui without root buy using this command
legion_gui --use_legion_cli_to_write
And also just include this desktop file in the nix package:
https://github.com/johnfanv2/LenovoLegionLinux/blob/main/python/legion_linux/legion_linux/legion_gui_user.desktop
you will need to remove line 43 from setup.py

from lenovolegionlinux.

For anyone on NixOS there is a open PR that adds the changes here: NixOS/nixpkgs#263760

from lenovolegionlinux.