cron jobs are started by the cron daemon which is completely unrelated to your GUI session, or any other session that might be active for the user.
As ccooke pointed out, if you want access to an unrelated session, you're going to have to do it manually. ** Changed in: cron (Ubuntu) Status: New => Opinion ** Changed in: cron (Ubuntu) Status: Opinion => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/327190 Title: User Crontab is outside of GUI session To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cron/+bug/327190/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs