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[tickmike]

I have a program that runs under root and I want to let a user know when it's running with a user tray icon so they wait until it's finished before shutting down.

 I added this.

 Edit the file /etc/profile and add the line:

export XAUTHORITY=/home/USERNAME/.Xauthority

replace USERNAME with the non-root username that logs-in

But it did not work.

[roseway]

Out of curiosity I just tried launching DSLstats as root by using kdesu:

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/usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu .../dslstats
This did create a tray entry which worked when I clicked on it, but it didn't show an icon in it. Is this the issue you're trying to solve? I'm not sure that forwarding the user's .Xauthority to the system default will work.

[tickmike]

It's the automatic backup system I have running on my daughters uni laptop, it runs under 'super user' but in the users settings it does not indicate when its running.

[roseway]

It's easy to check if a particular process is running. In a terminal, type "ps -e | grep <executable name>". This lists processes started by all users on the system. Perhaps you could make use of this?

[tickmike]

This works   Edit the file    /etc/profile    and add the line:
 xhost +si:localuser:root
at the end, save, re-boot, run backup system = icon for the user to see.

Not sure if this causes security holes .


http://linux.die.net/man/1/xhost
http://linux.die.net/man/7/xsecurity