rockedge wrote: Fri Feb 04, 2022 8:07 pmFrom looking at this screenshot it appears to be working and connected to the keyboard. ... not sure here what you need now but you can pen another terminal and see if you can start the other program as spot ...
Yes, I've been doing that. I can get it to start with
, but it will hang at the set up screen, then a popup window says that ckb-next-daemon isn't running:

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So, I installed systemctl from the PPM, and tried that command (from the popup):

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Terrminal output (from above screenshot):
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root# run-as-spot systemctl start ckb-next-daemon
ERROR:systemctl:writing STATUS {'MainPID': 27966}: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/run/ckb-next-daemon.service.status'
to status file /var/run/ckb-next-daemon.service.status
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/systemctl", line 4521, in <module>
result = command_func(*modules)
File "/usr/bin/systemctl", line 1755, in start_modules
return self.start_units(units, init) and found_all
File "/usr/bin/systemctl", line 1765, in start_units
if not self.start_unit(unit):
File "/usr/bin/systemctl", line 1783, in start_unit
return self.start_unit_from(conf)
File "/usr/bin/systemctl", line 1793, in start_unit_from
return self.do_start_unit_from(conf)
File "/usr/bin/systemctl", line 1886, in do_start_unit_from
self.execve_from(conf, newcmd, env)
File "/usr/bin/systemctl", line 2049, in execve_from
out = self.open_journal_log(conf)
File "/usr/bin/systemctl", line 1638, in open_journal_log
return open(os.path.join(log_file), "a")
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/journal/ckb-next-daemon.service.log'
root#
As already noted, the main utility, ckb-next, will not allow itself to run as root:

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Output from above screenshot:
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root# ckb-next
QObject::startTimer: Timers cannot have negative intervals
No GPG2 or GPG detected. Signature verification disabled.
The ckb-next GUI should not be run as root.
root#