how to make cron run gaim under my X session?

[Les Mikesell]

Valent Turkovic wrote:

> 
> I tried playing with at command and I can't make it start when I want to.
> 
> gaim | at now +1 minute
> - this starts gaim right away
> 
> echo 'gaim'|at now + 1 minute
> - this does nothing
> 
> making a script called "start" and giving it +x and then:
> at -f start now +1 minute
> - does nothing.
> 
> I tried reading man and googling but I can't find an answer how to
> start gaim every day at 8:15 under my username "pero" that I log in.

How is gaim supposed to know where to display its output (there might be 
many X sessions, or none)?  And if it does find your session, why should 
  it allow this program to open a new window?

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