use 'at' to run x apps?

florestan · 04-13-2003, 03:13 PM

trying to get mp3s to wake me up in the morning. If I open a terminal in X and execute...

$ xmms *.mp3

...it works. But when I try...

$ at now
at> xmms *.mp3
at> <EOT>

...it doesn't. Should it? Or am I stupidly overlooking something obvious?

Tinkster · 04-13-2003, 03:46 PM

Even if you were logged in as the user that
runs the at-demon the demon still wouldn't know
anything about the name of the DISPLAY variable.

I think you'd either have to do a little workaround.

To your .xsession file add a
xhost +localhost

And for your starting of mp3's use something like:
xterm -display localhost:0.0 -e xmms *.mp3
(You might have to play withe parameters...)

OR (I'd prefer that solution ;})
run
mpg321 which doesn't need to know about X ;)

Cheers,
Tink

florestan · 04-13-2003, 05:17 PM

Last night I did an apropos on 'mp3' and it didn't find anything. I'm sure it's there; I'll check tonight. Running Red Hat 8.0 There are so many little programs. OOh, that just made me think of something. (8.0) I downloaded a plugin for xmms that was an mp3 decoder. That's proly not gonna work for mpg321, huh? Is there some sort of system-wide .rpm for mp3 decoding?

Tinkster · 04-13-2003, 05:32 PM

There's lame (and liblame) ... but you'll still need
an executable to run that.

However, mpg321
works just fine and the binary rpm is only 58K in ;)

Cheers,
Tink

florestan · 04-14-2003, 02:50 PM

stupidness...

I think the problem was that I didn't provide a full path to the mp3s. It's always just little stuff like that. I'm still catching on to how to use these daemons.

I did go and get mpg321 so I don't have to have an x session up.

thanks,
florestan

Tinkster · 04-14-2003, 03:00 PM

No worries mate,

the first day I don't learn something new will
be after I died ;)

Cheers,
Tink (always learning)

h8r · 04-14-2003, 03:18 PM

Hey

I have the same problem.. i got the alarm plugin for xmms. Its great :-] try it.. from xmms home page