Re: dogtail Accessing a ui running as root?

[Bryan Kearney <bkearney redhat com>]

if I am root, or my user, if I run

gnome-at-properties

I see that accessability is enabled. I have rebooted the  machine.

If I su - to root, and then run any progrma (i.e. gnome-terminal) then 
sniff does not see it.

I will give a try on RHEL6. I am having other issues on F15 :)

-- bk

On 07/12/2011 12:26 PM, Swapna wrote:
> 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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