Just downloaded Neon 5.7 today and installed. Installed all updates. Downloaded from the repositories cron. Went to system settings looked inside 'StartUp / ShutDown' - no cron. Searched - app highlighted 'StartUp / ShutDown' but no cron. I reinstalled cron and again no cron. The reinstall has some errors that I cannot understand but here is the text, "The following packages will be REINSTALLED: cron 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/68.4 kB of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. (Reading database ... 186076 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../cron_3.0pl1-128ubuntu2_amd64.deb ... Unpacking cron (3.0pl1-128ubuntu2) over (3.0pl1-128ubuntu2) ... Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu6) ... Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ... Setting up cron (3.0pl1-128ubuntu2) ... update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults update-rc.d: warning: stop runlevel arguments (1) do not match cron Default-Stop values (none)" Hope this helps. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install cron from repositories 2. open system settings 3. Actual Results: No cron in StartUp / Shutdown Expected Results: A panel entry should display cron for setup
Does kcmshell5 kcm_cron in Konsole work for you? See also https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/128033/
Created attachment 99944 [details] picture of the thing working The software is called 'kcron'. 'cron' is the actual cron underlying kcron.
Burkhard Lueck - Thank You for the reply The reply is "???@???:~$ kcmshell5 kcm_cron kcron: Error when executing command "crontab -l > /tmp/kcmshell5.TJ2313" kcron: Standard output : "" kcron: Standard error : "no crontab for ???\n" kcron: Setup actions kcron: Actions initialized kcron: Begin view refresh kcron: Creating Tasks list... kcron: Generic list created kcron: Tasks list created kcron: Generic list created kcron: Variables list created kcron: Enabling view... kcron: Clipboard Status false kcron: Change selection... kcron: Crontab Widget initialized kcron: Calling load" Harald Sitter - Thank You for the reply Yes, my fault, I missed the 'k'. The kcron package was is an old version of KDE. Cron is the underlying app while kcron is the frontend (I think, maybe). Both were installed(?). Hope this helps
So this seems to be working fine, you were just looking for the wrong entry in systemsettings?
Harold Sitter - Thank You for the reply I was looking in the right place in systemsettings. What I did not do was load kcron with cron. I suppose that the other way around would have worked. Load kcron and cron is loaded also. Live and learn.