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Is there a task scheduler on GNOME?
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Thanks for the reply. It seems
systemd-uidoes not exist in the repos. I also checked some GUI programs and found Zeit, though doesn't seem actively developed. However couldn't install that either because distro maintainers removed adding third-party repos (this is a government distro on a school PC). Currently thinking about guide them for setting cronjobs. It's on terminal but it's not that hard as they may think. If the distro had KDE, they would havekcronat least. It doesn't on the repo either anyway.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
atddaemon must be running. Do you have root access to this machine/distro?Hm. What distro is this (based on)?
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.
It's based on Debian, but has its own repos only.