From 26adb4d8189ddad7d33a74ba2f356ea97c288fd8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: dec05eba <dec05eba@protonmail.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 22:52:36 +0100
Subject: Dont allow running the program as the root user

---
 README.md    | 3 ++-
 src/main.cpp | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8072785..de53c23 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ These are the dependencies needed to build GPU Screen Recorder GTK:
 
 * gtk3
 * libx11
-* ayatana-appindicator3-0.1c
+* ayatana-appindicator3-0.1
+* desktop-file-utils
 
 ## Runtime dependencies
 There are also additional dependencies needed at runtime:
diff --git a/src/main.cpp b/src/main.cpp
index 18ff526..39ed481 100644
--- a/src/main.cpp
+++ b/src/main.cpp
@@ -4323,6 +4323,11 @@ static void activate(GtkApplication *app, gpointer) {
 int main(int argc, char **argv) {
     setlocale(LC_ALL, "C");
 
+    if(geteuid() == 0) {
+        fprintf(stderr, "Error: don't run gpu-screen-recorder-gtk as the root user\n");
+        return 1;
+    }
+
     dpy = XOpenDisplay(NULL);
     gsr_info_exit_status = get_gpu_screen_recorder_info(&gsr_info);
 
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