if you use your user crontab and set DISPLAY it should work. if you use root crontab you'd need su or sudo. you might also want to divert standard and error output output to /dev/null, otherwise cron will (try to) mail it to you (if that fails it ends up in DEAD_LETTER or some such). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140126/0c639ae5/attachment.html>