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I'm working on integrating my raspberry pi into a car display that shows some OBDII readouts. However when I auto start my python script none of the fonts get loaded and it looks like this:
However, it should really look like this:
When I manually open the script the fonts work perfectly, but they just don't work on the auto startup.
Does anyone know how to get the fonts working before my script starts?
When you run your script "manually", you are running the script as the username under which you're logged in. When you "auto-start" the script with cron you are invoking the script as a different user.
Best guess: It seems to me that your problem may be that your "manual" user has access permission to the fonts, but your "cron" user does not. Alternatively, the "cron" user's $PATH may be different than the "manual" user's path, and therefore cron just doesn't know where to find the fonts.
If you'll revise your question to add your crontab entry, we'll try to be more specific.
