Re: [Dorset] Too Many browsers

On Monday, 27 June 2022 10:03:35 BST Peter Merchant wrote: > I have just had to install chromium in order to resolve a problem on my > opera browser not showing videos. I now have on my Kubuntu 20.04 Firefox, > Chrome, Opera and Chromium. > > I believe TC uses Chromium instead of Chrome on his

[Dorset] Crontab issue

The reason is that there is no screen on which to display any windows. A crontab 'job' is running in its own little login. It's a command line -only session, hence nowhere to send graphical display output. The 'no MTA' message is a different thing. The crontab task failed (nowhere to display

[Dorset] Too Many browsers

I have just had to install chromium in order to resolve a problem on my opera browser not showing videos. I now have on my Kubuntu 20.04  Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Chromium. I believe TC uses Chromium instead of Chrome on his computer. Can I get rid of Chrome and Firefox? Are there any

Re: [Dorset] Crontab issue

Adrian, reading  your comment reminded me of something I read about adding a display option to the script. So I added the line "export DISPLAY=:0.0" and the script now works with the image being displayed on screen at the scheduled time from crontab regards Tim H On 26/06/2022 22:03,