On Jul 19, 2023, at 09:18, Joe Feely via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a few little scripts that crontab runs. Well it runs the espeak commands but no sign of it running the zenity bits > > In crontab:- > 0 * * * * ./Joe-drink-water-reminder > > File Joe-drink-water-reminder contains:- > espeak -a15 -p25 -s160 "Hey, get Joe a drink of water" > zenity --info --title "Joe and water drinking" --width=850 --height=250 --text "<span foreground='blue' font='72'>drink</span>" > > This works in a terminal with ./Joe-drink-water-reminder (including doing the zenity command), BUT not when cron initiates it (it only does the espeak bit). > > This worked fine in f37 and earlier, just not f38. > Any pointers (I've "googled" it with no success) Tasks running in cron are running in a completely different session than your graphical login session, so they can’t launch graphical processes (although you can sometimes set the righ environment variables to trick it). Audio that interacts directly with the sound device will likely work because the user is granted access to the device. I think pipewire and pulseaudio have a socket that is well known so that should work too. You might get a better result by running them in a systemd --user timer unit, which I believe will run in your login session. -- Jonathan Billings _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
