Comment 14 for bug 706353

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In , Alexander (alexander-redhat-bugs) wrote :

Description of problem:
Using the GTK icon Applications/Accessories/Redshift, will not start the program unless sudo is placed in front of the command. Ie: sudo gtk-redshift
This is the same when starting from the command line (needs sudo redshift).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
redshift 1.5-1.fc14

How reproducible:
Install redshift, and try to use it under regular user-account.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to run redshift from GTK icon in Accessories , or at command line.
2. GTK icon just disappears, opening redshift in terminal reports error (see below).
3.

Actual results:
redshift does not start without elevated privileges.

Expected results:
redshift would start without elevated privileges, put its icon in the tray, and redden screen according to time of day/night in locale.

Additional info:

copy/paste of terminal error:

No clock applet was found.
Initialization of gnome-clock failed.
Trying next provider...
Latitude and longitude must be set.

This does not occur when using redshift with elevated privileges.
After going through information in Bug 604331; there does not seem to have been any discussion of using pam or polkit for redshift to get access to the information required from the clock applet; just a thought..
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