I'm testing a feature in psensor that requires root privilege but the app indicator applet didn't show in the unity panel when I launched the app with gksu except when it's started as normal user. Is there any workaround for this?
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export DISPLAY = :0– RobotHumansJul 17, 2012 at 6:49
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That env var is already set to ":0"– FlintJul 17, 2012 at 7:34
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does psesnor have a dbus api? there's that or policykit– RobotHumansJul 17, 2012 at 10:05
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AFAIK, there is only one feature of psensor which requires root privilege, the disk monitoring using the atasmart library (--use-libatasmart). You can use the hddtemp instead. Do you have a specific reason to use libatasmart?
Eventually, you can change the permission of the disk that you want to monitor to avoid the need of being root, but it will open a security hole...
psensor does not use directly dbus, but the appindicator library does...
It sounds like the issue is at dbus level: https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-appmenu/+bug/592842
