"at"

[john bray]

On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 14:06 +0100, Peter Lesterhuis wrote:
> Thanks John and Paul.
> When I do :
> 
> at <time>
> export DISPLAY=:0
> <command to launch any GUI-based app>
> 
> I can start any GUI-based application indeed.
> I understand now that "at" is not capable of launching apps in a 
> X-environment without the second line.
> Still I can't find out why it won't start mplayer.
> Peter.
> 
> 
hey peter - heh.  isn't it interesting how we learn new stuff.  i'd
never thought about export display before.  very interesting.

you might want to turn on the shell's -x and perhaps -v parameters and
see if anything interesting turns up.

john