[maemo-developers] investiganting a hildonization bug (open loadopt file: permission denied)

[From: Faheem Pervez]

Hi,

If you want to run a graphical program as root, I find prefixing the command
with run-standalone.sh works for me.

Regards

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:46 PM, Caio Begotti <caio at ueberalles.net> wrote:

> Hello there,
>
> I'm writing my very first Python application using the PyQt4 packages
> which another brazilian, Luciano Wolf, announced last september
> (IIRC). I know the code linked below is pretty crappy but I've found a
> weird problem while Hildonizing my app.
>
> Astmontray is a systray applet with a very simple menu layout that I
> wrote following both Python and Qt4 documentation and seems to work
> fine on my Macbook running Leopard, my Mandriva 2009.0 box and Maemo
> Diablo. Despite its source everything seems to be running alright.
>
> However, on Diablo the context menu is not Hildonized (by that I mean
> "it does not look like the rest of the environment, it has a raw Qt4
> appearance"). That happens every time I run the app after a "sudo
> gainroot", but if I run the app as a regular user I get the following
> message in terminal:
>
> Open loadopt file: Permission denied
>
> Even though I get this message every time I run it, it misteriously
> works AND get properly Hildonized. How come? Any ideas? Is it known or
> am I missing something obvious here? I wouldn't doubt that, btw.
>
> The current code is freely available at:
> http://caio.ueberalles.net/svn/voip/asterisk/astmontray/
>
> []s
>
> Caio Begotti
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