xfdesktop in a cron job

[houghi]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 11:14:43PM +0100, Tyler Durden wrote:
> The trouble I see is that env. var. DISPLAY is not actually
> propagated to the xfdesktop if you put it that way. Try it like
> this:
> 
> * * * * * DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/bin/xfdesktop --reload
> 
> or
> 
> * * * * * env DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/bin/xfdesktop --reload
> 
> (untested)

Same difference. i.e. it does not work. :-(

houghi
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