Update Pidgin IM status on Ubuntu using cron

Courtesy Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Mon, 09/29/2008 - 00:24

I use pidgin at work and forget to set my away message, I thought this article was helpful and also helps to configure cron to be able to start apps on your current X11 session rather than daemons and background tasks only.

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