#1068528 xfce4-settings: xfce4-find-cursor does nothing without … sudo?

Package:
xfce4-settings
Source:
xfce4-settings
Description:
graphical application for managing Xfce settings
Submitter:
T. Joseph Carter
Date:
2024-04-07 04:30:04 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1068528#5
Date:
2024-04-07 04:20:20 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

Discovered that xfce4-find-cursor (an accessibility feature) does not
work without the use of sudo. Permissions issue of some sort? Should
this program be installed with some sgid to access something? I can't
imagine what offhand.

This isn't documented as far as I can tell. Someone asked why it was
necessary to run this with root privs two years ago on askubuntu (no
answer) and that's all I could find amongst the AI trash and unrelated
responses. If there's some optional permissions I should be changing to
make this work, the changes aren't documented and there don't appear to
be any measures in place to preserve those changes in maintainer scripts
from a quick glance.

If it turns out to matter, Xorg with xfwm4 on AMD (6700 XT) using open
source drivers.