Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 10:20:10 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: change wallpaper periodly by cron? Message-ID: <20030820082010.GB12392@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20030820140025 DOT 325F DOT LUCIFER AT tsinghua DOT org DOT cn> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030820140025.325F.LUCIFER@tsinghua.org.cn> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 02:12:52PM +0800, Lucifer wrote: > I wrote a simple program to change my desktop wallpaper: > [...] > It works well when I run it under cygwin console: the wallpaper changes > successfully. > > However, when I put it in my crontab (I want to change my desktop > apperance periodly :p), the wallpaper doesn't change. The log read: > "Error: 1459", which means "This operation requires an interactive > window station." > > Is this a limitation of cron? How can I resolve it? Thanks in advance. It's a limitation of service processes. You can only change it by setting the "Allow service to interact with desktop" property of the service. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/