Open gnome-terminal as a cron job

[Scott van Looy]

Today Dylan Semler did spake thusly:

> Basically, I have a program that searches certain bittorrent sites for
> new torrents that I usually like.  When it finds one, I want it to
> open a new terminal and run bittorrent-console in that terminal to
> start downloading the torrent.

Have you considered using one of the many bittorrent command line tools 
instead? I use rtorrent for grabbing stuff when I'm stuck in a terminal 
window, saves on the overhead of X...am guessing that'd be scriptable in a 
far easier way...

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