I'm trying to use the keyboard library within Thonny on my Raspberrypi Zero W. However I receive an error saying "import error: you must be root to use this library on Linux."
Can Thonny run scripts as root to avoid this error?
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No, Thonny doesn't have means for running scripts as a different user or with sudo – Aivar Mar 02 '21 at 14:15
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perhaps you can start Thonny - whatever it may be- as root – hetepeperfan Nov 05 '21 at 07:47
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- Go to menu right click on Thonny menu item.
- Click on properties
- Click on the tab 'Desktop Entry'
- Change the 'Command' field to
sudo /usr/bin/thonny %F - Click on OK button.
- Close and open Thonny.
- Important: You are running Thonny as root, which means when you click on the save/load button it will by default show the Home of the root user. Make sure you choose your default user ( usually the pi folder )
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If you run Thonny as root you can.
So open a terminal and enter sudo Thonny
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2Running a whole IDE as the root user is probably not the best idea. I wouldn't recommend it. – Adam Waldenberg Apr 10 '21 at 13:40
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Open a terminal and use sudo python program.py to start the program.
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Try to run Thonny as root. If the IDE has privileges, it also can run other scripts using it. – Shraft Mar 02 '21 at 10:17