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Ahmed Sheta
Ahmed Sheta

Reputation: 13

Running pyqt with root privilege?

I am trying to run pyqt file with sudo but the GUI doesn't run when running as root. It gives me this error:

X Error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) 10
  Extension:    130 (MIT-SHM)
  Minor opcode: 1 (X_ShmAttach)
  Resource id:  0x142
X Error: BadShmSeg (invalid shared segment parameter) 128
  Extension:    130 (MIT-SHM)
  Minor opcode: 5 (X_ShmCreatePixmap)
  Resource id:  0x3000010
X Error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) 9
  Major opcode: 62 (X_CopyArea)
  Resource id:  0x3000011

So, is there a way to run it with root privileges?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1604

Answers (4)

Display name
Display name

Reputation: 121

Try sudo QT_X11_NO_MITSHM=1 followed by your command.

for example, to run a python script:

sudo QT_X11_NO_MITSHM=1 python example.py

Upvotes: 0

sumellan shans
sumellan shans

Reputation: 351

I had a similar issue when I running OpenCV in Ubuntu 18.04. I have solved using the below command

export QT_X11_NO_MITSHM=1

Upvotes: 0

Juan Prado
Juan Prado

Reputation: 43

echo "export QT_X11_NO_MITSHM=1" >> $HOME/.bashrc

it work for my. thnks!

Upvotes: 0

ĐÆV
ĐÆV

Reputation: 26

I had a similar problem running QT from a Docker container.

Try with this (it was the solution for me):

echo "export QT_X11_NO_MITSHM=1" >> $HOME/.bashrc

Upvotes: 1

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