cron jobs are started by the cron daemon which is completely unrelated
to your GUI session, or any other session that might be active for the
user.
As ccooke pointed out, if you want access to an unrelated session,
you're going to have to do it manually.
** Changed in: cron (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Opinion
** Changed in: cron (Ubuntu)
Status: Opinion => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/327190
Title:
User Crontab is outside of GUI session
Status in “cron” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
When trying to execute programs that require variables from the GUI
session. the crontab fails. It can no longer execute tasks which
relate to editing gnome gconf or any other session settings.
I believe this is because the crontab is outside of the gnome session.
There are two possible fixes, 1) Somehow allow the system cron to
access session variables when users are logged in, 2) Create a special
cron which runs when users log in.
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