X program from cron
Hi all,
I want to update my wallpaper at time intervals. So, I've set up a
crontab:
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (/tmp/crontab.bCmoxk/crontab installed on Thu Jan 15 21:07:39 2004)
# (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp
# $)
0 * * * * $HOME/bin/wallpaper_rotate $HOME/pics/wallpaper/
wallpaper_rotate is a dirty shell script:
#!/bin/sh
NEXTFILE=`ls $1 | rl -c 1`
wmsetbg $1$NEXTFILE
Now that's coding. Anyway, it works. However, cron reports:
wmsetbg fatal error: could not open display
I guess this is because it is not being run from my X session. Question
is, is there anything I can do to get it to work the way that I want?
A
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