Re: dogtail Accessing a ui running as root?

[Bryan Kearney <bkearney redhat com>]

On 07/12/2011 01:02 PM, Bryan Kearney wrote:
> 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


Swapna took a look at this, and I am consistently (F14 RHEL 6.1) not 
able to see items run as root by a sniff run as my own user. Is this a 
valid case? Is there any configuration voodoo I need to do?

-- bk