Gnome-terminal will not start via vnc when vncserver started via cron

[gbigras]

I have cron setup to launch a script every 5 minutes that checks if vncserver is running. If not it launches another script that will start vncserver as a specific user and display ( su - <user> -c "/usr/bin/vncserver -geometry 1280x1024 :1" )

If I "su" as the user and run the command from an ssh session then vnc to the machine, I can launch gnome-terminal without any issues. I see this issue only when vncserver is started via cron.

thanks in advance for your help.
Guy

[TrevorH]

I'd suggest using your script to start vnc using the service command.