On Thursday 23 October 2003 10:12 am, Daniel Eckl wrote:
kcron is only a front end for the very stable and functionable cron daemon. See "man cron" for more infos.
Yes, thanks I did that once and being a home user (schlub) it was a little too compikated for me...
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.
Thanks for that, it answers my question about why it didn't work.
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
Yep, that's what I've been doing, but I was looking for a more "linux" way of doing it, and also sometimes I do like to try out WindowMaker and other DEs so I wanted one that would work no matter which one I was logged into.
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.
Can't do that, since sometimes I need to quickly stop the music if my roommate is still sleeping :-) Thanks for your response Daniel. I'll just keep on using kalarm. -- Bryce Hardy (Santa Rosa, CA) brycehdy@sonic.net