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falstro / ghost-text-vim

Ghost Text for VIm
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Doesn't work when started via crontab #16

Closed peey closed 6 years ago

peey commented 6 years ago

I'm facing a weird issue. I added 

@reboot /path/to/dir/containing/ghost-text-server.tcl

and I can confirm that the job is started (I tried starting it again via command line, but got the error couldn't open socket: address already in use, then I check via ps aux | grep ghost-text-server.tcl$ that indeed the script is running)

But it doesn't open up GVim. If I run it on terminal then it works fine.

falstro commented 6 years ago

If you simply start it from a crontab it can't connect to the X server. It must be started in a way that the DISPLAY-variable is set correctly, and that it has access to your X cookie. If it's running as your user, a simple "DISPLAY=:0 /path/to/script.tcl" should probably do the trick.

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I'm facing a weird issue. I added

@reboot /path/to/dir/containing/ghost-text-server.tcl

and I can confirm that the job is started (I tried starting it again via command line, but got the error couldn't open socket: address already in use, then I check via ps aux | grep ghost-text-server.tcl$ that indeed the script is running)

But it doesn't open up GVim. If I run it on terminal then it works fine.

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peey commented 6 years ago

This worked, thanks!

(Appropriately enough, this was typed on Vim via GhostText, with the script started from crontab)