Yes, I've fully debugged the cron-executed version. All arguments are identical to when executed from the command line, i.e., are properly constructed and fully valid. I was wondering, too: Does this particular glib routine require there be a display available? Still, I would expect the error structure to be filled if this were the case, but maybe not? richard On 10/3/07, Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Have you tried to replace (temporarily) you program with something simple written in, say, Perl or "C" that just prints ARGV ? I mean, can it be that somehow wrong arguments are passed to your program from 'cron' ? --Sergei. _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list