<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/4.6.6"> </HEAD> <BODY> Based on systemd's related sibling loginctl, I managed to accomplish the holy grail of the 90's: get Amarok to play music on my desktop sessiom from a crontab (motivated by the missus' desire to have an alarm in the home theater that requires her to walk downstairs, to adapt to her polyphasic sleep): <A HREF="https://github.com/Rudd-O/run-in-gui">https://github.com/Rudd-O/run-in-gui</A> Pull requests to, well, there. Flames to my personal email. I'm sure it's buggy as fuck since it's been working only for the last half an hour or so, but we pulled it off together in the space of 2 hours. Enjoy! </BODY> </HTML>