dogtail Accessing a ui running as root?

[Bryan Kearney <bkearney redhat com>]

I am on Fedora 14. I have a python GTK app which I need to run as root. 
I do so from the command line after a sudo from the terminal. Running 
sniff as my personal user does not see this app. Running sniff as root 
throws an error (see below) I am assuming because I am not running my 
desktop as root. Is there a way to configure things so I do not need to 
log in as root?

Thanks!

-- bk


[bkearney@bkearney Desktop]$ sudo sniff

** (sniff:6723): WARNING **: AT-SPI: Accessibility bus not found - Using 
session bus.

Error: AT-SPI's desktop is not visible. Do you have accessibility enabled?
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/sniff", line 19, in <module>
    from dogtail import tree
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dogtail/tree.py", line 1132, 
in <module>
    children = root.children
NameError: name 'root' is not defined

[bkearney@bkearney Desktop]$