[nylug-talk] cron or at with xmms

[Henning Follmann]

On Dec 13, 2006, at 6:21 AM, ksdfkw9 wrote:

> Does anybody know why xmms doesn't work with cron or at?
> There always seems to be something else you can use, so it isn't a  
> big problem, but I'm puzzled as to why.
> Commentary on the web tends to say "You can't do it, but it isn't  
> simple to say why."
> Anyone up for a potentially non-simple explanation?


xmms requires a running X server. With cron or at you never know if X  
is running or not.
And you don't know if the environment variables are set (e.g. $DISPLAY).


Henning

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