[opensuse] Ho to get rid of this popup
I keep getting a popup asking for root password. Its title is "System policies prevent you from setting the brightness level." It appeared after an update of KDE4.7, not the first 'zypper up' of that repository, but one this last weekend. I enter the root password, it goes away, then comes back about half an hour later. I realise I _could_ edit system policies, but I'm wondering WHY I'm getting this? I don't recall setting anything in systemsetting that could account for it. I don't need to, want to and never have set brightness level. Why is this here now? /a -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 08/10/2011 11:37 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
I keep getting a popup asking for root password. Its title is
"System policies prevent you from setting the brightness level."
Don't do it man..... It's probably a root exploit, trojan or worm...
It appeared after an update of KDE4.7, not the first 'zypper up' of that repository, but one this last weekend.
I enter the root password, it goes away, then comes back about half an hour later.
Sounds like brightness is set to 'Auto' brightness in some fashion and after the display has warmed fully and the auto-brightness control would like to make an adjustment to slightly dim the display brightness inputs to accommodate the screen in its fully-warm fully-bright state.
I realise I _could_ edit system policies, but I'm wondering WHY I'm getting this? I don't recall setting anything in systemsetting that could account for it.
I don't need to, want to and never have set brightness level.
Why is this here now?
Hmmm... Maybe, KDE4 now has some similar feature to windows vista UAC where you get bugged for the root password for even the slightest system change or adjustment. Like when you need to browse the system32 folder, or the dog farts, or whatever....) So somewhere in your settings, brightness is probably set to 'auto', and now each time some process adjusts/changes the desired brightness level, the UAC message is displayed asking you for permission to do it. That kind of stuff just totally drove me crazy in Vista. I ended up just 'beagling' the whole UAC setup and for the past 2 years, I'm never bugged by another UAC event again. Perhaps, you too, should beagle the heck out of whatever there is in kde4 that is driving/triggering the display of this widget event? (or display dialog root pw prompt) Sorry I can't give you any more hints, (satire was all I was able to muster at this time of evening), but things are still working perfectly with the KDE3 desktop on 11.4, so I haven't bothered with my old friend kde4 in a long, long, time ;-) And you know what? I haven't run into any of these frustrating type issues in a long long time either! :) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Anton Aylward wrote:
"System policies prevent you from setting the brightness level."
IIRC, I get something similar when using XDMCP on 11.4. I don't recall seeing it with earlier versions. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
James Knott said the following on 08/12/2011 06:09 AM:
Anton Aylward wrote:
"System policies prevent you from setting the brightness level."
IIRC, I get something similar when using XDMCP on 11.4. I don't recall seeing it with earlier versions.
I *WISH* I could get XDMCP working on my LAN but that's another matter. No, I eventually tracked this down last night. It was a side effect of power control ... powerdevil or something ... on the laptop when running off the battery. Defaults are not always smart! Not a problem with 11.4 or KDE. as such. -- If the errors of the past were good enough for our ancestors, they re good enough for us! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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