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

-- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 are you running the cron task as your login user? i.e. is xhosts disallowing

On Wednesday 23 November 2005 21:29, Patrick Shanahan wrote: the access? Phil

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