showkey exits with a non informative message on not having root privileges

Bug #1092611 reported by Vibhav Pant
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kbd (Ubuntu)
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Vibhav Pant

Bug Description

showkey exists with printing "Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console" if it doesnt have root privileges. The user should be informed if showkey is launched with non-root privileges.

Vibhav Pant (vibhavp)
Changed in kbd (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Vibhav Pant (vibhavp)
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