Hot plug permission rules. Don’t forget to add yourself to dialout group.
Why? This is a great opportunity for me to learn a thing. Thanks!
Barely a Linux user but I did some troubleshooting recently and my basic understanding is that adding yourself to the dialout group lets your user access certain USB devices.
Serial devices too
I’ve never needed to do that. Hm.
It’s not a group that exists in all distros, ymmv
I Googled it to double check and it’s for serial devices.
I am fairly Linux savvy but udev isn’t something I’ve gotten a handle on yet.
Can someone explain what’s going on here to me?
I just wrote a post on how to use this to automatically disable/enable your laptop keyboard on plugging/unplugging your custom keyboard. Just one example.
In general, it allows you to set rules and automation about handling devices on the kernel level and comes with systemd (so most modern Linux distros have it by default, even Arch Linux)
https://fhoekstra.eu/posts/linux-disable-internal-laptop-keyboard-when-external-keyboard-plugged-in/
I understand all of the words but none of the sentences
