Re: dogtail Accessing a ui running as root?

[Hongqing Yang <hoyang redhat com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bryan Kearney" <bkearney redhat com>
> To: "Swapna" <skrishna redhat com>
> Cc: dogtail-list gnome org
> Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 2:53:47 AM
> Subject: Re: dogtail Accessing a ui running as root?
> 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

I try to use it to implement the AutoQA project.  but it does not work very well,
I have to run it as root. If you only need a few functions, maybe you can call
pyatspi instead.

Hongqing