"at"

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 7 16:25:44 UTC 2006


On 1/7/06, Peter Lesterhuis <peterlesterhuis at tiscali.nl> wrote:
> I want to start an app at a certain time, say 2 hours from now. For
> instance xmms, oowriter or mplayer. I can't make this happen when I use
> "at".
> When I type a shell-command like "cp" using "at", then it works.
> In the documentation I cannot find any limitations of launching apps
> with "at". Is it an authorization problem (launching x-based apps?).
> On the other hand mplayer won't start either.
> I'm aware this is not a typical question for this list, but I don know
> where else to put my question.

Peter,

Please, tell us how do you issue the AT command to run mplayer.

(I can run mplayer and openoffice with AT.)

Paul




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