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calling startx from cron, no go

Logged in as user "frame" and ran crontab -e. Setup cron to launch a shell script which ends with "startx" (which really just starts a feh slideshow thanks to .xsession settings). Trouble is, when the shell script is called with cron, I get:

Code:

xauth: creating new authority file /home/frame/.serverauth.4008



X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting.

giving up.

xinit:  Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server

xinit:  No such process (errno 3):  Server error.

Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console

Any idea how to fix this? Is there a way to make that command come from "frame" instead of whichever random user cron uses?

Thanks.

Okay, it seems that for startx to work, the command has to come from the console (which apparently it doesn't when using cron?). Is there a way to spoof this through my shell script?

I still don't think that cron is necessarily the right way to go, and
if you hadn't started several threads with little chunks of a bigger
problem you would possibly have a working solution already :}

Cheers,
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