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| author | Oxore <oxore@protonmail.com> | 2023-12-31 18:43:23 +0300 |
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| committer | Oxore <oxore@protonmail.com> | 2023-12-31 19:18:23 +0300 |
| commit | 7966e9a09f105259188aaf89f799afa2ea33dccd (patch) | |
| tree | 2a10bc52bb3d26f4810bf3690e09fc3ec4c134af | |
| parent | 364b67ce30d06150b772fdff01d4327bc2c67f5e (diff) | |
Add note about the `input` group
| -rw-r--r-- | Readme.md | 2 |
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@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ If you don't see any entries for "Sony Interactive Entertainment something somet The line `H: Handlers=js0 event23` is what we need. `event23` is the gamepad event source name that is gonna be intercepted and substituted by the program. You may end up with different number with the word `event`. Anyway you must use the proper file name you've got from your `/proc/bus/input/devices` in the following commands instead of `event23`. -Once again, if you are planning to use virtual keyboard as `user`, run this as root, to allow `user` to access the event source: +Once again, if you are planning to use virtual keyboard as `user`, you must make sure the `/dev/input/event23` file is accessible by the `user`. Usually `/dev/input/event*` files have group set to `input`, so if you add `user` to the `input` group, you will be fine. Otherwise you may just change the owner of the file to be your `user` like this (run as root): ``` chown user:user /dev/input/event23 |