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Gnome schedule 2.1.1 has been released.

Get it from https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnome-schedule/files/.

- gaute

- Gnome-schedule 2.1.0 -

Gnome-schedule is a graphical user interface that leverages the power
of crontab (vixie-cron, dcron) and at to manage your crontab file and
provide an easy way to schedule tasks on your computer. It supports
recurrent (periodical) tasks and tasks that happen only once in the
future. It is written in Python using pygtk, and has been developed,
tested and packaged for various Linux distributions.

New in this release:
Apart from fixing a number of annoying bugs (including where you couldn’t enter times above 13:49), and long awaited X support. You should now be able to set up your X applications to be run by cron and at, and as long as you are logged in they will be run. This does depend on you having you X server running on the same DISPLAY. Please note that this feature is still experimental.

Previous release notes are available here: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=572635

Download: https://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=112183&filename=gnome-schedule-2.1.0.tar.gz

Bugs: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/simple-bug-guide.cgi?product=gnome-schedule

For more information and screenshots see our homepage: http://gnome-schedule.sourceforge.net

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

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

- Gnome-schedule 2.0.2 -

It turns out that a bug in Python 2.4’s locale module has affected the two latest Gnome Schedule releases, this release comes with yet a new way to work with at. And I hope our efforts to create a backend that is compatible with all distributions, locales and versions of at finally has borne fruits. For those that it interests we are now using the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable to get an expected output.

Gnome-schedule is a graphical user interface that leverages the power
of crontab (vixie-cron, dcron) and at to manage your crontab file and
provide an easy way to schedule tasks on your computer. It supports
recurrent (periodical) tasks and tasks that happen only once in the
future. It is written in Python using pygtk, and has been developed,
tested and packaged for various Linux distributions.

Fixed in this release:
* New parsing system for the at backend
* Using the new icon for applet

Previous release notes are available here: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=572635

Download: Sourceforge
Bugs: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/simple-bug-guide.cgi?product=gnome-schedule

More information and screenshots on our homepage: http://gnome-schedule.sourceforge.net

Kind regards,

Gaute Hope

Our new mayor release, the recent 2.0.0, introduced a few annoying bugs. Through quick bug reports and helpful patches they have been fixed in this release.

Fixed in this release:
* Bug 513330: Applied patch from Frank Arnold fixing wrong locale category (LC_ALL -> LC_TIME)
* Bug 513330: Applied patch from Frank Arnold fixing mainwindow template button.
* Desktop icon using the correct .svg icon
* Installing icons under $prefix/share/pixmaps/gnome-schedule
* Only trying to load data files from current location if launched with ‘–debug’

Previous release notes are available here: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=572635

Download: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=112183&package_id=254297&release_id=573528
Bugs: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/simple-bug-guide.cgi?product=gnome-schedule

More information and screenshots on our homepage: http://gnome-schedule.sourceforge.net

- gaute

Been fixing (or applying patches from Frank Arnold) on some pretty annoying bugs in gnome-schedule after the release. But now it should be ready, and I will make a new release soon.

Started using OpenBox, it is great, I am getting more and more annoyed by the more and more heavy desktop environments. But they are handy to have to pick out the particular tools from.

Finally figured out why auto mounting stopped working.
gparted prevents all removable storage to be mounted while it is running, but removes this policy at exit so that the original settings apply. However if you kill it you have this file leftover making trouble.

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At last! Gnome-schedule 2.0.0 is out!

Download here.

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I have released gnome-schedule-2.0.0-rc2, feature frozen and with a freshly updated documentation from Rodrigo.

Updated WordPress.

Using a theme from Azeem Azeez. Slightly modified for use with the widgetized sidebar.

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