Re: dogtail Accessing a ui running as root?

[Bryan Kearney <bkearney redhat com>]

Thanks.. but no dice. If I run the app as root I can not see it in sniff.

-- bk

On 07/12/2011 12:11 PM, Swapna wrote:
> 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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