Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
linux users,
could you tell me if and how i can activate xscreensaver by a cronjob?
As background information i have to get off the pc every hour (for health reasons)- i thought it would be easiest to do this with cron.
50 * * * * /usr/bin/xscreensaver-command -activate
does not work as expected – syslog logs activity but i don’t see one.
i also wont get a terminator (terminal emulator) started.
is there a way to start a gui/display program with cron ?
thanks in advance
ε/2
X applications require certain environment variables to be set, in order to point them to the right display. Try:
If this doesn’t work, you may need some sort of XAUTHORITY environment variable as well – check from within your GUI session to see if there’s such a variable set, and replicate it here.