Re: dogtail Accessing a ui running as root?

[Bryan Kearney <bkearney redhat com>]

On 07/12/2011 12:52 PM, Swapna wrote:
> I ran leafpad (GTK+ text editor) with sudo and ran sniff as my personal
> user. Sniff was able to see leafpad. This was on RHEL 6.1
>
> Please make sure that sniff runs as user. It will not run as root. When
> sniff is run as user, it should see some/any applications if
> accessibility is working properly.
>
> I think accessibility or dogtail is not working properly. Can you run
> sniff as user and paste any messages that appear on terminal?
>
> - Swapna

I get this running leap pad as root:

[bkearney@bkearney Desktop]$ su -
Password:
[root@bkearney ~]# leafpad

** (leafpad:10617): WARNING **: AT-SPI: Accessibility bus not found - 
Using session bus.


I get nothing from sniff.

-- bk