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Trying to get cron to run a script that writes a desktop notification using osd_cat (part of xosd package). Runs fine from terminal. From cron it seems to try to run but instantly stops, showing "No protocol specified. Error initializing osd: Cannot open display"
I must have read every posting on Google that has anything to do with this subject. Many never indicated as solved. Others too complex for me to understand. I'm just trying to run a simple script. Have experimented with posts pointing to permissions, DISPLAY and xhost without success.
I am using openbox on both Arch and Debain wheezy. Would appreciate help, especially because osd_cat is a nicely configurable notification program.
Assuming that this can work, the objective is to run backups automatically with anacron, but preceeded with a notification to insert a USB drive.
Thanks, habitual. No doubt your script would show the notification if I were to install notify-osd (a ubuntu-developed program that includes notify-send). But my problem is that when anacron tries to run my osd_cat (part of xosd-bin on Debian) script, it immediately shuts down without putting it on the screen. It would probably do the same with yours.
On the other hand if as root I give the command: anacron -fn, the notification appears immediately on the screen (the -f option means ignore time stamps and the -n option means run now).
So I conclude that anacron and my script are doing the job, but that there is some other impediment that I can't figure out.
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