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I have gotten alot of different bug reports and problems sent to me when people try to use gnome-schedule, and quite a few of them are actually crontab and atd problems; mostly just them not being there at all. This post tries to give you an idea about how you can figure out what is wrong; or how it is supposed to work. Exactly how to set up crontab and at differs for all distributions and they all have their own tutorials.

If something works; don’t proceed through the rest of the steps – they are meant as suggestions to solutions. And if you have it working they might break it. That means; no guarantees!

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X output

The X output feature for Gnome Schedule is now ready for testing, this means that you can easily schedule graphical applications without worrying about the DISPLAY variable. Gnome Schedule also checks before each run if there is a working X connection; in other words that you are logged in.

There is still needed some testing before the next version will be released and it would be great if you could try out the current development branch.

To get the sources do:
$ svn checkout http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gnome-schedule/trunk gnome-schedule

You can build and install it into a temporary directory by doing:
$ cd gnome-schedule/
$ ./autogen.sh –prefix=/path/to/tmp
$ make; make install

to run it from there do:
$ cd /path/to/tmp/bin
$ ./gnome-schedule

If you have any problems or suggestions file them on the gnome bugzilla. More details on how to build can be found in the README.

- gaute

07.02.2009 – Horndalsnuten, 1460 moh.

Vi kom til ca 1350m, før skodda stoppa oss. Meget bra å køyre ned igjen.. spesielt når det letta igjen.

29.01.2009 – Daniel at Hallingskeid; tredagers snøskredkurs i av BSI-friluft og Daniel.

07.01.2009 – Forsøk på å gå opp til Såta på Kvamskogen. Snudde ca 100 meter under toppen av Bjørkefjellet då vi satte eit flak i bevegelse rett over oss og gjentatte drønn hadde overbevist oss om at dette kanskje ikkje var so lurt.

There has been a review of Gnome Schedule at makeuseof.com:

[...] For those who dislike the terminal and command line interface, Gnome Schedule is the graphical equivalent of the crontab. It leverages the power of vixie-cron, dcron and at to manage your crontab file and provide an easy way to schedule tasks on your computer. Be it scheduling a recurrent task or task that happens only once, Gnome-schedule has no problem in handling it. [...]

- gaute