[Gllug] Running gnome-terminal from cron

[Tethys]

"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:

	#!/bin/sh

	while true
	do
		t1=$(date +%s)
		xterm -e "/path/to/your/script"
		t2=$(date +%s)
		sleep $((1800 + t1 - t2))
	done

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.

Tet
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