Re: cron & cannot open display

2003-07-20 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 11:17:09AM +0100, David selby wrote: > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > I know cron works AOK on non x programs Cron only works with non-interactive programs. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :

Re: cron & cannot open display

2003-07-20 Thread David selby
Sebastian Kapfer wrote: On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 13:30:10 +0200, David selby wrote: PS works with mozilla mozilla --display=:0 Mozilla is GDK/GTK-based. Those apps use the GNU-style long options with two leading dashes. * * * * * dillo --display=:0 works for me. (What about DISPLAY=:0 dillo?)

Re: cron & cannot open display

2003-07-20 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 13:30:10 +0200, David selby wrote: > PS works with mozilla > mozilla --display=:0 Mozilla is GDK/GTK-based. Those apps use the GNU-style long options with two leading dashes. * * * * * dillo --display=:0 works for me. (What about DISPLAY=:0 dillo?) -- Best Regards, | H

Re: cron & cannot open display

2003-07-20 Thread David selby
Elie De Brauwer wrote: On Sunday 20 July 2003 12:17, David selby wrote: Hello I have been trying to get cron to execute programs at set times, As a test I am trying to execute dillo (loads fast!) I setup cron as user testbed to execute dillo every five mins, I get the following .. From [EM

Re: cron & cannot open display

2003-07-20 Thread David selby
Elie De Brauwer wrote: On Sunday 20 July 2003 12:17, David selby wrote: Hello I have been trying to get cron to execute programs at set times, As a test I am trying to execute dillo (loads fast!) I setup cron as user testbed to execute dillo every five mins, I get the following .. From [EM

Re: cron & cannot open display

2003-07-20 Thread Elie De Brauwer
On Sunday 20 July 2003 12:17, David selby wrote: > Hello > > I have been trying to get cron to execute programs at set times, > As a test I am trying to execute dillo (loads fast!) I setup cron as > user testbed to execute dillo every five mins, > I get the following .. > > From [EMAIL PROTECT

cron & cannot open display

2003-07-20 Thread David selby
Hello I have been trying to get cron to execute programs at set times, As a test I am trying to execute dillo (loads fast!) I setup cron as user testbed to execute dillo every five mins, I get the following .. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jul 20 11:10:01 2003 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> E

Re: Program started from cron cannot open display:?

2000-10-25 Thread John Ericson
On Oct 24 14:28, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > Are you specifying a display for the X client? Following works: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:karsten]$ batch > warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh > at> export DISPLAY=:1 > at> xlogo & > at> > job 66 at 2000-10-24 14:2

Re: Program started from cron cannot open display:?

2000-10-24 Thread kmself
on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 10:46:22PM +0200, John Ericson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Oct 24 11:09, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 03:39:53AM +0200, John Ericson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > I'm trying to launch a local Gnome program on my local X from crontab bu

Re: Program started from cron cannot open display:?

2000-10-24 Thread John Ericson
On Oct 24 11:09, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 03:39:53AM +0200, John Ericson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > I'm trying to launch a local Gnome program on my local X from crontab but > > in my > > mail report from the cron it says: > > > > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open di

Re: Program started from cron cannot open display:?

2000-10-24 Thread kmself
on Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 03:39:53AM +0200, John Ericson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm trying to launch a local Gnome program on my local X from crontab but in > my > mail report from the cron it says: > > Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > > And the program won't come up. My display is :0

Program started from cron cannot open display:?

2000-10-24 Thread John Ericson
I'm trying to launch a local Gnome program on my local X from crontab but in my mail report from the cron it says: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: And the program won't come up. My display is :0 and yes, X is running. Can anyone give me a hint here? -- * John Ericson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *