Valent Turkovic wrote: > Hi, I use gnome-schedule as a gui for cron but I can't make it start > gaim under my username and to get a gui. > I can start some scripts and cli programs without any problems but how > do I start a gui application and under my user not root account. > > Thank you. > I believe the problem is that you can not connect to the X server because XAUTHORITY is not set in the cron job environment. XAUTHORITY normally points to a file that contains the "keys" necessary to connect to the X server. If you are using gdm to handle GUI logins, the file will be in /tmp and be .gdm<something> owned by the user logged into X and only accessable by the owner. (and root...) There are a couple of ways around this. One is to turn off some of the X security. This can be done using the xhost command. Without knowing your setup, I can not say what form of the xhost command would be best. You should probably read the xhost man page. You could also write a script that looks for the XAUTHORITY file in /tmp, sets XAUTHORITY to point to that file, and starts gaim. You will want to be sure that the file is owned by your user, to make sure you have the correct one. Depending on what you are trying to do, there may be better ways of doing it besides using a cron job. One way would be to add a job that runs when you log into the GUI or run startx from a cli login that uses the at command to launch gaim at a specific time. There are also X programs that will launch a program at a specific time. (You will have to do a search - I don't remember the names right now.) The advantage here is that you will not be trying to launch gaim if you are not logged in. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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