Gnome Schedule in Ubuntu Hardy

Wednesday, July 30, 2008 | posted in , | 0 comments

Ubuntu Hardy: For those who are not familiar with setting up a crontab through CLI and looking for a GUI (graphic user interface) alternative, you may want to install Gnome Schedule. Gnome Schedule provides GUI for users to easily manage their scheduled tasks without going through any command.

To install gnome-schedule

Steps:

1) open a Terminal and run the following command

sudo apt-get install gnome-schedule

2) Done

To Run Gnome Schedule

Steps:

1) Goto "System>Preferences>Scheduled tasks"

gnome schedule

2) Click on "New" to create the type of schedule task you wants to create.

gnome schedule

3) Create Task. Example: Play say.mp3 at 8 am Morning.

gnome schedule

Source: gnome-schedule.sourceforge.net

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