kstart can't connect to the X server from (root's) cron (was Re: Starting an app (via the CLI) and having its window appear on "all desktops")

[Randy Kramer]

(Aside: I left the previous post and response intact, below, although I don't 
think you need to refer to it.)

kstart works fine from root's CLI, but when I try to run it from root's cron I 
get the error message:

kstart: cannot connect to X server

Within cron (see my edited current cron, below) I changed the path from:

/usr/bin:/bin

to:

/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin/

hoping that would solve the problem.  The path seems to have been successfully 
changed, but kstart still cannot connect to the X server.

Do I have the wrong path (the path came from a "which X"), must I put 
something else on the path, do something else?

Randy Kramer

My current cron (edited):

PATH =  /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin/
* * * * * /bin/echo $PATH  >> /rhk/kstart.txt 2>&1
* * * * * /usr/bin/kstart --alldesktops /usr/sbin/net_monitor 
>> /rhk/kstart.txt 2>&1

/rhk/kstart.txt is just a log file to help me troubleshoot.  The PATH does 
appear correct in that log file.

The previous post:

On Monday 13 November 2006 09:08 pm, you wrote:
> On Monday 13 November 2006 05:10 pm, Christian Mueller wrote:
> > Am Montag, 13. November 2006 22:48 schrieb Randy Kramer:
> > > I'd like to be able to start an application (in this case, a non-kde
> > > application--does it make a difference?) from the CLI and have its
> > > window appear on all desktops (as in To Desktop -> All Desktops).  Is
> > > there a way to do that?
> >
> > kstart can do that.
> > I just tried with xeyes, a non-KDE program:
> > kstart --alldesktops xeyes
> > Works for me.
>
> Christian,
>
> Wonderful, thank you!
>
> And, in this case, it placed the window exactly where the previous
> window/instance was, which is just what I want!
>
> Randy Kramer
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