Re: dogtail Accessing a ui running as root?

[Swapna <skrishna redhat com>]

Looking at your error message again, it says Accessibility is not 
enabled. Can you double-check it is turned on? When you run sniff as 
your personal user, do you see any messages at the terminal? Are other 
applications showing up in sniff? If accessibility is on, then sudo is 
the problem. Dogtail does not like being run as root.

Does doing the same with non-gtk apps on F14 work? Have you tried the 
same app with dogtail on RHEL 6?

- Swapna

On 07/12/2011 12:13 PM, Bryan Kearney wrote:
> 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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Thanks,
- Swapna
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