Comment 1 for bug 327190

Hi,

It is actually possible for programs run from cron to acquire settings from the GUI; it's just rather arcane and tricky to make it reliable. Making it automatic would be possible, but probably require some additional work.

If you just want something that will work *NOW*, you can find directions here: http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-105250.html - note that this will fail randomly if you have more than one user logged in (or in any case where you're the not the first person to log in).

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