Haven't been able to test, but I've previously had troubles running some shell commands with `awful.util.spawn()` - try `awful.util.spawn_with_shell()` and see if that helps.
On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 at 12:39 Elv1313 . <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > The awesome mod4+r prompt run without a shell and withous many environment > variables. Maybe if you add the command in a script with a #!/bin/bash > header and call that, it will work. Else, you will have to figure out > what's missing. > On Jul 22, 2015 9:39 PM, "Alfredo Palhares" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> I am trying to xall xbacklight from awesome, with the following commands: >> >> ```lua >> awful.key({ }, "XF86MonBrightnessDown", function () >> awful.util.spawn("xbacklight -dec 15") end), >> awful.key({ }, "XF86MonBrightnessUp", function () >> awful.util.spawn("xbacklight -inc 15") end), >> ``` >> >> But I always get this "No outputs have backlight property", calling the >> commands from the command line works. >> >> Do you have any ideas ? >> >> -- >> Alfredo Palhares >> GPG/PGP Key Fingerprint >> 68FC B06A 6C22 8B9B F110 >> 38D6 E8F7 4D1F 0763 CAAD >> > -- Regards, Samuel Walladge
