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Mark Smith
Asked: 2022-06-26 06:42:14 +0800 CST

Transmission Gtk-WARNING **: <time> cannot open display: :0.0

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Ubuntu 22.04

I'm trying to use crontab to launch Transmission at 22:04 and kill it at 07:00. To launch it at 22:04, I use:

04 22 * * * env DISPLAY=:0.0 transmission-gtk

But I get the error:

(transmission-gtk:21925): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:04:01.301: cannot open display: :0.0

I've also tried:

04 22 * * * DISPLAY=:0 transmission-gtk

but I get the same error (without the last .0)

How can I launch Transmission-gtk from crontab? I want to do this as I've noticed that Transmission uses network resources even when in the alternate speed-limit mode. I realise I could use something else like qbittorrent, but there must be a way of launching Transmission at certain times? Gnome-scheduler no longer seems to be in the Ubuntu repositories.

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