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Is there a task scheduler on GNOME? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 month ago by muhyb@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev

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Apparently gnome-schedule is quite old and unmaintained. I want to help a friend with this and it shouldn't be a commandline option, has to be GUI. Something like kcron, task scheduler on KDE.

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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I just looked at at; it seems it would be relatively simple to set it up in a way that it reads jobs from a file that your end user can edit. OTOH there will be the usual hurdles of e.g. launching another GUI app from a limited environment.

Again, you'd need to set that up for your end user with a yad or zenity script.

You'd also need to check if your system allows these things, e.g. the atd daemon must be running. Do you have root access to this machine/distro?

couldn’t install that either because distro maintainers removed adding third-party repos (this is a government distro on a school PC)

Hm. What distro is this (based on)?

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

The system has a root account but they don't allow you to use it. However there is an admin account with more privileges.

Though it seems editing crontab will work for them, since it will be a one time thing unless they reinstall the system.

What distro is this (based on)?

It's based on Debian, but has its own repos only.