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Poking around, I determined how to list both cron and FFS log entries in the system journal (openSUSE does not use /var/log/syslog). The logs showed cron executing FFS and FFS executing. However, I also saw a lot of these messages:

Feb 22 03:31:41.985883 FreeFileSync[17269]: Failed to load module ...

Tumbleweed doesn't run SELinux by default; it runs AppArmor which is similar. Your question motivated me to check by reviewing the AppArmor documentation. According to that, running the command "aa-unconfined" as root shows programs which are "confined" or "unconfined." According to that, cronie is ...

Tumbleweed still uses x11 by default and that's what I'm running.

KDE on Tumbleweed uses SDDM.

I looked at the article you provided. However, yesterday I did a reassignment of Xauthority to my home directory - and was unable to login. Fortunately I have another machine so I did some research and ...

Well, nothing worked.

I tried the same command as Fwbackups was using but pointing it at FFS - didn't work,

I removed the flatpak version of FFS and installed the run file version.

Nothing worked.

This is the last crontab I tried:

rhack@localhost:/Data2/Work> crontab -l

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"Is it possible that flatpak needs more environment variables to correctly connect to the desktop or otherwise run?"

That's a good question. I'm not sure. This is the KDE desktop and in my experience it has all sorts of things that might need to be done. When I was running fwbackups it ...

I know, I've searched the forum and found all sorts of cron job solutions - that aren't working for me.

I'm running KDE on openSUSE Tumbleweed, latest snapshot, in fact a fresh install yesterday. I installed Task Scheduler in KDE.

Here is my original cron job:

rhack@localhost:/Data2/Work ...