Re: dnf-system-upgrade to Fedora 41 is Ok

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On Oct 30, 2024, at 16:18, Dave Close <dave@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Is it still true that stock F41 does not include the ability to run X11?
> I'm stuck until Wayland has a way to invoke Firefox from a cron job.

If it’s a cron job that runs as your user as part of your login session (and shouldn’t ever run if you aren’t logged in) then don’t use cron, create a systemd timer that runs in your user session, put files in $HOME/.config/systemd/user/. Since it runs as part of your session it can launch graphical programs, speak to dbus, etc. 

If it’s a detached Firefox that isn’t connected to any logged in session, just run it in an Xvnc session, which is X11, and you can use cron or whatever you want. Connect to the session through a VNC client if you ever need to interact with the Firefox but it won’t need to be running at the same time you are logged in. 

Cron talking to X is just super janky and I try to avoid it. That being said, I’ve built a whole automation project doing something similar with ansible, so I’m a bit of a hypocrite. 

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Jonathan Billings
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