Bug#1068528: xfce4-settings: xfce4-find-cursor does nothing without … sudo?
Package: xfce4-settings
Version: 4.18.3-1+b1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Discovered that xfce4-find-cursor (an accessibility feature) does not
work without the use of sudo. Permissions issue of some sort? Should
this program be installed with some sgid to access something? I can't
imagine what offhand.
This isn't documented as far as I can tell. Someone asked why it was
necessary to run this with root privs two years ago on askubuntu (no
answer) and that's all I could find amongst the AI trash and unrelated
responses. If there's some optional permissions I should be changing to
make this work, the changes aren't documented and there don't appear to
be any measures in place to preserve those changes in maintainer scripts
from a quick glance.
If it turns out to matter, Xorg with xfwm4 on AMD (6700 XT) using open
source drivers.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.7.9-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages xfce4-settings depends on:
ii exo-utils 4.18.0-1+b2
ii libatk1.0-0t64 2.52.0-1
ii libc6 2.37-15.1
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.18.0-3
ii libcairo2 1.18.0-3
ii libcolord2 1.4.7-1+b1
ii libexo-2-0 4.18.0-1+b2
ii libfontconfig1 2.15.0-1.1
ii libgarcon-1-0 4.18.1-1+b2
ii libgarcon-common 4.18.1-1
ii libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 2.42.10+dfsg-3+b2
ii libglib2.0-0t64 2.78.4-6
ii libgtk-3-0t64 3.24.41-4
ii libnotify4 0.8.3-1+b1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.52.1+ds-1
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.52.1+ds-1
ii libupower-glib3 1.90.2-8+b1
ii libx11-6 2:1.8.7-1
ii libxcursor1 1:1.2.1-1
ii libxfce4ui-2-0 4.18.4-1+b1
ii libxfce4util7 4.18.1-2+b1
ii libxfconf-0-3 4.18.1-1+b2
ii libxi6 2:1.8.1-1
ii libxklavier16 5.4-5+b1
ii libxrandr2 2:1.5.4-1
ii xfce4-helpers 4.18.3-1+b1
ii xfconf 4.18.1-1+b2
Versions of packages xfce4-settings recommends:
ii colord 1.4.7-1+b1
ii x11-utils 7.7+6+b1
ii xiccd 0.3.0-2+b1
xfce4-settings suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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