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Light does not work without sudo

Hello everyone,
I do not know why when I run the light command as
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light -S 50
it does not work.

Here is my user id:
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user@host ~ $ id user
uid=1000(user) gid=1000(user) groups=1000(user),998(wheel),996(audio),987(storage),985(video)

When I do it with sudo privleges it works. Do you know what might be the cause?

Re: Light does not work without sudo

Reply #1 –
first I should say, This is a orphan project, use something else.

Is you user in video group?

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Reply #2 –
Yes user is my account and it is in the video group.

Can you recommend another program for controlling screen backlight from command line?

Re: Light does not work without sudo

Reply #3 –
look at wiki
I recommend "xorg-xbacklight". if it does not work then "acpilight"
if you want a lot of useless functionality "clight"