Aphotic
May 2nd, 2012, 02:43 PM
First, I have tried the advice posted here. (http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-796233.html)
Seeing as none of those suggestions resolved it, here's my issue:
I have in the past setup cron jobs to change my desktop background every 10 or 15 minutes. Back then I didn't bother specifying a display so sometimes it worked better than others.
I now have a conky configuration which I have 3-4 color schemes for. I thought "how neat would it be to have the conky colors change to match the backgrounds?"
I modded the conky themes and found a command to accomplish everything I wanted as follows:
killall conky && fbsetbg ~/.fluxbox/backgrounds/hypex.jpg && conky -c ~/.conky/conkyrcgreen
If I plug this string of commands into the terminal it executes flawlessly, however if I try and run it through cron it successfully kills conky but none of the other commands appear to execute. So effectively conky vanishes from my desktop but it doesnt reload and the background doesn't change.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Seeing as none of those suggestions resolved it, here's my issue:
I have in the past setup cron jobs to change my desktop background every 10 or 15 minutes. Back then I didn't bother specifying a display so sometimes it worked better than others.
I now have a conky configuration which I have 3-4 color schemes for. I thought "how neat would it be to have the conky colors change to match the backgrounds?"
I modded the conky themes and found a command to accomplish everything I wanted as follows:
killall conky && fbsetbg ~/.fluxbox/backgrounds/hypex.jpg && conky -c ~/.conky/conkyrcgreen
If I plug this string of commands into the terminal it executes flawlessly, however if I try and run it through cron it successfully kills conky but none of the other commands appear to execute. So effectively conky vanishes from my desktop but it doesnt reload and the background doesn't change.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.