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Is there a way to get an alarm clock in Debian distros that opens certain weblinks? I want it to open links to various youtube videos. I've read about this ...
- 10-22-2007 #1Linux User
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An alarm clock program?
Is there a way to get an alarm clock in Debian distros that opens certain weblinks? I want it to open links to various youtube videos. I've read about this thing called "cron," but I'm not sure if it can do what I want it to do.
- 10-23-2007 #2Linux Guru
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Hi - I don't think there's a programme which will do that. I know that an alarm plugin is available for the XMMS media player, but it just plays music to wake you up.
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso
- 10-23-2007 #3Linux Guru
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If you are running KDE you can probably use dcop and konqueror. If you use cron to launch a dcop command telling konqueror what page to show it could be done that way.
It would be something like this in your crontab.
Code:dcop konqueror-$(/sbin/pidof konqueror) konqueror-mainwindow#1 openURL www.linuxforums.org/forum
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