Re: change wallpaper periodly by cron?

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

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

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