On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 18:33:41 -0400, Bill Shirley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you see this post? I'm not convinced you are > exporting the DISPLAY variable. Can you post your > script?
Yeah, I saw it. Sorry I didn't reply at the time, I was busy trying out all sorts of things and a bit overwhelmed by the unexpected slew of emails (for which thanks to everyone), and then it sort of got buried under yet more contributions. I did try this too, and env | grep DISPLAY gives me DISPLAY=:0.0 A script like: #!/bin/bash export DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/bin/galeon http://www.google.com with a crontab like: SHELL=/bin/bash MAILTO=ger PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/lib/jre-1.4.2_04/bin:/home/ger/bin * * * * * /home/ger/bin/test won't run from cron. Neither does simply * * * * * /usr/bin/galeon in the crontab. It works from the xterm, even after I run unset DISPLAY (if I omit the "export" in the script above, after I unset DISPLAY I get the following message at the xterm: (galeon-bin:2613): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: I guess this is to be expected.) I log in from run level 3 and type startx at the command line, but that doesn't seem to change the behaviour. Ah well, this is more complex than I'm ready for right now. I found a workaround, where cron runs cat to update a file, setting it to 0 or 1. Then a background process reads that file and opens a galeon tab if it finds a 1. It works, and I know why and how - good enough for the moment. Now I want the script to read a file with several URLs and check them one by one, just to see if I can. I'm trying to learn shell scripting, basically, but you guys have so many ideas I can't keep up. Thanks for all the help. Germán.
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