spyder does not work under root! [linux]

Paulo da Silva p_d_a_s_i_l_v_a_ns at nonetnoaddress.pt
Thu Oct 14 13:18:48 EDT 2021


Às 16:16 de 14/10/21, Mats Wichmann escreveu:
> On 10/13/21 16:55, Michael Torrie wrote:
>> On 10/13/21 12:09 PM, Paulo da Silva wrote:
>>> spyder and eric are both python editors/debuggers! Why are they related
>>> with web browsers?!
>>
>> Good point. I was going off of the chromium bug report. My bad.  I
>> mistook Spyder for Selenium, which is a web scraping scripting engine
>> that does use a real browser.  Oops.
>>
>> However, for better or worse, browser engines power all kinds of apps
>> these days, including IDEs. I do not know if Spyder is powered by
>> Chromium or not.  VS Code, for example,  is powered by a web browser
>> engine.
>>
>> As to Eric and Qt, I can't speak to that.
> 
> (sorry sent this wrong place first time)
> 
> 
> The configuration dialog in eric uses its WebBrowser module, which uses
> qtwebengine, which uses Chromium, which gives you the error.  It's not a
> Python error, fwiw.
> 
> It seems there's an environment variable you can try in the Qt world
> (I've never had occasion to check this out):
> 
> https://forum.qt.io/topic/94721/running-as-root-without-no-sandbox-is-not-supported
> 
Ok, thank you.




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