Getting notifications in the plasma widget

Aaron J. Seigo aseigo at kde.org
Mon Oct 1 19:11:03 UTC 2012


On Tuesday, October 2, 2012 00:06:50 Robin Atwood wrote:
> OK, I think I know what the problem is. The app is for monitoring system
> services and must run as root to be able to do anything. There are two
> knotifys running, one as my user and one as root.

bingo.

> I guess there is no way to
> connect the root knotify to the user widget? 

they are on different dbus sessions, so no .. 

> But I can run the app as my
> user and do the service stops/starts with sudo. 

which is probably what you want to do anyways. running GUIs as root is scary 
and recomended against.

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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