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Michael Fierro was all like, you know, and said something like...

>
> Try this:
>
>         */5 * * * * killall -USR1 xfdesktop >/dev/null 2>&1
>

Excactly what I ended up doing - may be a hack, but it works .

> all standard input to /dev/null, and to interleave standard error
> messages there, too.[...]
> just ">/dev/null," which would discard all of the standard input, but would
> let error messages still be sent. For the simple command you are running,
> though, you probably won't have to worry about any errors.
>

I like that - think I'll switch to it and see how it goes.

Thanks for your time!

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