[ale] Launch GUI from Cron

Brian Pitts brian at polibyte.com
Sun Sep 9 02:51:34 EDT 2007


Hi,

I'm interested in developing a personal time tracking system. To start, 
I thought I would create a simple dialog box that pops up every 15 minutes

I created the following script

#!/bin/sh
export DISPLAY=:0
zenity --question --text="What are you doing?"

and added an entry for it in my crontab. Although syslog shows that it 
runs, I never see the dialog. Any suggestions on making this work?

Thanks,
Brian



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