On 6/14/14, Shrinivasan T <tshriniva...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a GUI application to be run on a headless server, in cron > periodically. > > It runs well on local laptop in cron as I have logged in a GUI > environment. > > Ex- > > 10 10 * * * display:0 firefox > > I have to run the same application on a remote server where I have SSH > login as root. > > The server has all the gnome and kde installed. > > But the GUI app is not running as I did not logged in GUI. > > I don't know if the ctrl+F7 area has only gdm login screen or someuser has > logged in already. > > Is there any way to login as GUI user remotely even no one logged in GUI > locally ? > > Thanks for your inputs. > You can try using virtual frame buffer. XVFB.
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