Cron/Xwindows

Uncle Jim jim at jimani.com
Thu Oct 23 02:58:16 CDT 2003


Hi,

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:38:13AM -0500, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
> 
> > You may have to add this to your cron entry:
> 
> > 0 12 * * * DISPLAY=localhost:0 xwindowsprogram

I just looked at "man galeon" and like most X programs it will take a
display option:

       --display=DISPLAY
              X display to use

so this should work, too.

  0 12 * * * galeon --display=:0.0 url.html

-- 
Jim




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