need help with crontab

[II12yanII]

i cant seem to get crontab to work correctly i guess im not understanding it entirely. i installed the packages and did crontab -e to edit the schedule but i cant seem to get it to execute. im trying to start magic mirror on startup. im starting the line with @reboot but then after that im confused at to put. all i really need to do is launch the terminal and put in two commands CD MagicMirror and the put in npm start. any help would be greatly appreciated.

[DougieLawson]

If your program needs Xwindows running then starting it from @reboot happens too early.

Start it from the LXDE / Pixel autostart directory.

[II12yanII]

If your program needs Xwindows running then starting it from @reboot happens too early.

Start it from the LXDE / Pixel autostart directory.

Then what variable would work? What I'm trying to do is that if the pi loses power due to a power outage or something when power does return I'd like the pi to boot up and in that time start the magic mirror process.

[DougieLawson]

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