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Artix Linux => Installation / Migration / Configuration => Topic started by: awky on 06 December 2024, 11:38:51

Title: Do i need to add my local user to the audio/video group?
Post by: awky on 06 December 2024, 11:38:51
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Title: Re: Do i need to add my local user to the audio/video group?
Post by: ####### on 06 December 2024, 16:40:20
The Artix wiki suggests several groups for a typical use case including these, but says you might not need all of them:
https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Configuration (https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Configuration)
Try without and see what happens - perhaps create a new user to experiment with first in case it causes major problems. Many groups are related to how you use your computer and what hardware and software you have, being in the lp group is pointless if you don't have a printer for example. And you might need to be in additional groups, e.g. wireshark if you use that.
It looks like X will still work if you are not in the video group:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Users_and_groups (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Users_and_groups)
Title: Re: Do i need to add my local user to the audio/video group?
Post by: nous on 27 December 2024, 14:45:27
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# usermod -a -G audio,video localuser
Title: Re: Do i need to add my local user to the audio/video group?
Post by: mikapyon on 27 December 2024, 23:00:01
X, as the wiki says works without. But even MPV, without X, on the framebuffer works without the video group.
However most framebuffer programs do require it, for example:

(Also first post yay hi)