[Gllug] Running gnome-terminal from cron

[Simon Morris]

Tethys wrote:
> 
> "Simon Morris" writes:
> 
>  >It works great, and is much faster but I'd like it to popup every 30
>  >minutes so I can fill it in and get rid of it.
> 
> OK, so rather than using cron, why not just have a script launched by
> your window manager? That way it only runs when you're logged in, for
> a start. Something like:
> 

Why not use it? Probably because it hadn't occured to me at all - thats 
very clever. Thanks - I'll give that a go

> 
> Thus every 30 minutes, it'll pop up a terminal, and run your timesheet
> application. When you log out, the script will be killed by the window
> manager.
> 
>

~sm
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