Uh are you sure those are the correct arguments? Afaik gsd-backlight-helper wants a device and a value (e.g. gsd-backlight-helper /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/ 700), not any switches. If you don't pass a device, it fails on a strcmp with realpath(argv[1], device), which is NULL because "--set-brightness" is not a path.
Uh are you sure those are the correct arguments? Afaik gsd-backlight- helper wants a device and a value (e.g. gsd-backlight- helper /sys/class/ backlight/ intel_backlight / 700), not any switches. If you don't pass a device, it fails on a strcmp with realpath(argv[1], device), which is NULL because "--set-brightness" is not a path.