Is there a way to start an X application by a user's crontab, even if there's no properly logged in X session to connect to? For example the following works if I have an active X session: 59 0 * * * env DISPLAY=:0 aria -p But I can't seem to get the following to work: 59 0 * * * /usr/bin/X11/startx /usr/bin/aria -- :1 Cron mails me some complaint about the user not being authorized to start X (something I suspect is connected to xauth).