Patrick Shanahan wrote:
I seem to have gone brain dead, maybe normal... I cannot start an X app from cron. All my efforts have presented: cannot connect to X server
ie: /opt/kde3/bin/kstart --desktop 4 /usr/bin/smtm. results in an email: kstart: cannot connect to X server
not a problem with smtm, a perl/Tk app. ie: /usr/bin/smtm works
Be noted that a crontab entry does not get an environment as you get on login. It is verry likely the $DISPLAY is not set. Then there is also the X11 security like xauth and xhost and such. Try to create an `at` entry from your crontab entry. With `at`, you will get the environment roughly as it is where you create it. You can fetch this at-job to a save place and with a proper name. Create a crontab entry from that script. CBee