Re: dogtail Accessing a ui running as root?

[Swapna <skrishna redhat com>]

Try without sudo. dogtail run as root doesn't work so well.

- Swapna

On 07/12/2011 12:00 PM, Bryan Kearney wrote:
> 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]$
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- Swapna
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