For those who are not familiar in setting up a crontab through CLI and looking for a GUI (graphic user interface) alternative, you may want to install Gnome Schedule. Gnome Schedule provides GUI for users to easily manage their scheduled tasks without going through any command.

To install gnome-schedule

Steps:

1) open a Terminal and run the following command

sudo apt-get install gnome-schedule

2) Done

To Run Gnome Schedule

Steps:

1) Goto “System>Preferences>Scheduled tasks”

2) Click on “New” to create the type of schedule task you wants to create.

3) Create Task. Example: Play say.mp3 at 8 am Morning.

Source: gnome-schedule.sourceforge.net

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