Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (157 mails)

[Daniel Eckl <daniel.eckl@xxxxxx>]

kcron is only a front end for the very stable and functionable cron daemon.

See "man cron" for more infos.

The cron daemon is absolutely independent of XFree graphic server and so it 
has no authentication to X and so it cannot start graphical applications.
One could possibly tweak X-Server security to allow this (but I do _not_ 
recommend this!).

If you are logged into KDE anyway and kalarm is working for you, then just 
create a new alarm which is not a text notice on the screen, but a command 
(you can choose, see the kalarm help). And as command, you can use 
xmms --play /path/to/playlist-or-file

Another way would be to use a command line mp3 player and use cron jobs. A 
command line player doesn't need to have a connection to the graphic server 
and so it can run through a cronjob.

You can use mpg123 to do this. Disadvantage: You don't have a player interface 
where you simply can stop the music or anything that way. Advantage is, that 
this will run even if you are not logged into your machine at all.

Greets,
Daniel

Am Donnerstag, 23. Oktober 2003 16:14 schrieb Bryce Hardy:
> I tried using kcron yesterday to schedule xmms to wake me up this morning,
> the way I've been using kalarm up to now (8.2/KDE 3.1.1). Well nothing
> happened at 7:00. Could the kalarm daemon be interfering with it since it's
> still running in the system tray with the alarm daemon still activated,
> although I deleted the particular alarm involved? Or is kcron a work in
> progress that doesn't work right?
>
> --
> Bryce Hardy (Santa Rosa, CA)
> brycehdy@xxxxxxxxx