[Cialug] cron/bash

Zachary Kotlarek zach at kotlarek.com
Thu Oct 21 17:29:15 CDT 2010


On Oct 21, 2010, at 5:23 PM, Don Ellis wrote:

> I think it's setting a background image in a background environment. Wouldn't be visible to a logged in user. Need to have it attached to a session of some kind for you to actually be able to see something, maybe in your .profile, with a test for whether it's already running. I'm not sure what kind of .profile-like action takes place when your X session starts, but that's where it probably needs to be.


That's a good option too -- just fire off the script from inside your session as part of the login process. It's not like you need cron to do time-of-day scheduling or anything.

	Zach

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