crontab: How to run GUI programs with cron

[euphemus]

Problem solved - I switched from crond to fcron and I could execute a program with a word - like "firefox" or "kaffeine" or "limewire"

Great - I'll use fcron from now on.

[meg23]

Praise the lord! It works!

[arunprasad13]

hi..i have ubuntu edgy 6.10 ..i m not able to run azureus at a particular time in gui...i have copied the different option which i tried and pasted here.

arun@arun-desktop:/opt/azureus$ sudo crontab -e
crontab: installing new crontab
arun@arun-desktop:/opt/azureus$ sudo crontab -l
# m h dom mon dow command
39 00 * * * export DISPLAY=:0 && ./azureus
arun@arun-desktop:/opt/azureus$ sudo crontab -e
crontab: installing new crontab
arun@arun-desktop:/opt/azureus$ sudo crontab -l
# m h dom mon dow command
41 00 * * * export DISPLAY=:0 && /opt/azureus/azureus
arun@arun-desktop:/opt/azureus$ sudo crontab -e
crontab: installing new crontab
arun@arun-desktop:/opt/azureus$ sudo crontab -l
# m h dom mon dow command
43 00 * * * env DISPLAY=:0.0 /opt/azureus/azureus
arun@arun-desktop:/opt/azureus$ sudo crontab -e
crontab: installing new crontab
arun@arun-desktop:/opt/azureus$ sudo crontab -e
crontab: installing new crontab
arun@arun-desktop:/opt/azureus$ sudo crontab -l
# m h dom mon dow command
45 00 * * * env DISPLAY=:0.0 ./azureus
arun@arun-desktop:/opt/azureus$

pl help

[steve101101]

thanks

[jelevin]

Is there a way to use this even if there isn't a display running (i.e., on a headless server)?

[henriquemaia]

Is there a way to use this even if there isn't a display running (i.e., on a headless server)?

Well, of course. cron main use is precisely that, to be used on servers, headless or not. But probably what you want is on another thread. Try searching for crontab tutorials on these forums.

[sparklyprgs]

Excellent! Bad thing is it took over an hour of pain to find this out but it was worth it in the end.

[coskibukowski]

Just THANKS!

[ccczzx]

Thanks is not enough to express my feelings!
And Thanks all of you!

[thiyagi]

Thanks, was useful..