On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 14:01, Paul M Foster wrote:
>
> Cron doesn't run in an X environment. So if it's trying to launch an
> X-based application (which is what it sounds like), it's going to fail
> on that part. Most X apps launched from an xterm can detect that they're
> running in an X environment and launch properly. But cron doesn't run
> that way. I'm guessing that if you try to run any X app from a pure
> console (not an xterm, but a real console), you'll get the same or
> similar error message.
>
> Paul
>
So does this mean that it is not possible to start a gui app from cron?
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