hp-toolbox must be run as root?

The program hp-toolbox from the hplip package is quite handy to monitor
the ink level and similar things on a HP inkjet printer. It works nicely
if I start it with root privileges, but if run as a regular user it
complains: "no connection. make sure the device is connected".
Is that as it should be, or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks,
Tilman

Tilman,

is that a hp-toolbox installed from a Suse repo, or a manual install using a downloaded version? If the latter, did you run it as normal user? IIRC you should.

Uwe

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Thanks, Uwe, for your reply. As it stands, the problem has solved
itself. After logging out and in again the tool now works fine when run
with my regular user ID. I guess some permission change done by the
installation process only took effect for the new session.

For the sake of completeness:
> is that a hp-toolbox installed from a Suse repo, or a manual install
> using a downloaded version?

It's the package hplip-2.7.7-37.2 offered by YaST, AFAICS from the main
10.3 repo.

Thanks,
Tilman

Tilman,

thanks for the feedback, glad you got it sorted!

Uwe

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