GTK Calls from CUPS Backend

[Michael Sweet]

Mohit Kumar wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have written a cups backend and now I want to get some data from the user for which I need to pop up a gtk dialog. However as soon as the code reaches the gtk_init call, the code simply hangs.
> I would like to know whether it is actually possible to do any GTK calls from the backend.

No, you can't do that because your backend will be running as root,
possibly on a different system, and not as the user that submitted
the job on the same system.

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