On Saturday 2013-08-31 14:28, killermoehre wrote: >Am 31.08.2013 11:09, schrieb Manuel Amador (Rudd-O): >> Based on systemd's related sibling loginctl, I managed to accomplish the >> holy grail of the 90's: get Amarok to play music on my desktop sessiom >> from a crontab (motivated by the missus' desire to have an alarm in the >> home theater that requires her to walk downstairs, to adapt to her >> polyphasic sleep): >> >> https://github.com/Rudd-O/run-in-gui >> >> Pull requests to, well, there. Flames to my personal email. I'm sure >> it's buggy as fuck since it's been working only for the last half an >> hour or so, but we pulled it off together in the space of 2 hours. >> >> Enjoy! > >Doesn't Amarok starts if you prefix it with the right DISPLAY variable? >Like »DISPLAY=:0 amarok«. This should work from cron, too.
Normally, you also need to set XAUTHORITY= to the right path -- since you do not want just anybody to be able to connect to your :0. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
