On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 11:51:43PM -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Martin J. Brown wrote: > >When I use 'at' to execute a command that involves displaying a dialog on > >X/gnome, > >it never works: "Can't open display" . > > > >I have done: 'xhost +', and 'xhost +local:root'. Still no go. > > > >example: > > > > $ at now + 35 minutes -f ~mjbjr/bin/washer_done.sh > > > > > >washer_done.sh: > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mjbjr $ cat bin/washer_done.sh > >beep -f 1000 -n -f 2000 -n -f 1500 -n -f 10 -l 750 -n -f 1000 -n -f 2000 > >-n -f 1500 -n -f 10 -l 750 -n -f 1000 -n -f 2000 -n -f 1500 > > > >gdialog --title "User Notice" --msgbox " WASHER IS FINISHED " 300 400 > > > >---- > >'beep' gets executed, 'gdialog' does not. > > > >If I replace 'gdialog' with 'xmessage', same thing . > >If I (mjbjr) execute 'washer_done.sh' directly (no 'at'), it works fine. > > > >The man page for 'at' says that it doesn't pay attention to the $DISPLAY > >env var. > > Set the DISPLAY var within the script: > > DISPLAY=":0.0" gdialog --title "User Notice" --msgbox " WASHER IS \ > FINISHED " 300 400
or my thought was to use the -display option? Or do GTK or KDE not understand that? Mike -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
