Bob -- ...and then Bob Williams said... % ... % try and understand why something works from the command line but not Good for you! That's excellent, and I hope that my answer was helpful. Yamaban went even farther (although I'll be surprised if setting $DISPLAY when it can't get to it will work; please report -- and be sure to test when you aren't logged in or when some other account is using the windowing environment, too), so you should now have a pretty good idea of where to research more. Have fun :-) % when run as a cronjob. Maybe I shouldn't have asked for a workaraound. Well, you ask and you'll get ... ;-) HTH & HAND :-D -- David T-G See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/email/ See http://justpickone.org/davidtg/tofu.txt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org