Install system-wide without running xkalamine as root #22
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This is not an ideal user experience. But this allows you to generate the files necessary for system-wide installation as a regular user, then install those files as root. This way you are only invoking root powers for cp(1) and you don't need to install and run xkalamine (and its dependencies) as root.
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Ohh sorry I missed your work. That’s exactly what I needed, thanks ! |
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This way users can generate the files necessary for system-wide installation as a regular user, then install those files as root. This way you are only invoking root powers for cp(1) and you don't need to install and run xkalamine (and its dependencies) as root.
I wrote some instructions for this manual installation method in the README.rst.
It's not a great user experience, but right now it's the only way I can see to use the program to install keyboard layouts system-wide without giving all of xkalamine and its dependencies root capabilities. Maybe
xkalaminecould somehow elevate its permissions after generating the files and before writing the new files in place? Or maybe it could print out a big diff file that could be applied as root – something like this:Marking this as a draft PR because more work is needed for usability.