Cron feh background display [SOLVED]

Question

I use feh to set the desktop background and cron to change it every hour.  The following command
DISPLAY=:0.0 feh --bg-scale /home/tri/.wallpaper
used to work, but recently stop working.  The cron log show the following error "feh ERROR: Can't open X display. It *is* running, yeah?"  X is running  and "echo $DISPLAY" shows ":0"  I'm wondering if anyone is experiencing this issue.
Last edited by tri1976 (2011-04-29 20:24:18)

Answer 1

Why use a cron job?
I just execute this script:
wallpaper.sh
#!/bin/bash
shopt -s nullglob
cd ~/.wallpaper
while true; do
files=()
for i in *.jpg *.png; do
[[ -f $i ]] && files+=("$i")
done
range=${#files[@]}
((range)) && feh --bg-fill "${files[RANDOM % range]}"
sleep 15m
done
xinitrc:
. ~/.wallpaper/wallpaper.sh &
.wallpaper is my wallpaper directory.  Just replace that with whatever directory you are using for your wallpaper and it should work.
Last edited by the sad clown (2011-04-10 21:11:24)