On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 5:24 PM, BR!j!TH <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I have a script that dumb a image from kstars and then set it as a desktop > background. I want to put it in crontab. Following is the script. > What I found was the script is executing. The image is getting created but > it fails to set as desktop background ( the second line in the script) > somebody please help me > starwall file > #!/bin/bash > #starwall file > kstars --dump -width 1280 --height 1024 --filename="/home/brijith/kstar.png"
Try giving the full path to kstars. If you don't know the path, you can find it using the command which kstars > /usr/bin/gconftool -t string -s "/desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename" > "/home/brijith/kstar.png" > echo "Done" > crontab entry > # m h dom mon dow command > */1 * * * * env DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/local/bin/starwall >Desktop/error.txt > > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > > -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
