writing simple visual front ends to shell scripts for ubuntu

[Peter Garrett]

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:19:38 +0200
Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis at kaarsemaker.net> wrote:

> On ma, 2005-09-12 at 10:31 +1000, Serg Belokamen wrote:
> > You may want to look into "dialog", just type "dialog --help" on
> > comand line.
> 
> Zenity is the replacement for dialog.
> -- 
> Dennis K.

Actually, if I understand correctly, dialog is an ncurses based method that works within a terminal or tty, whereas Zenity supplies X-based gtk2 dialogues etc .  Xdialog can be used with dialog, but is gtk 1.2 . The Xdialog documentation goes into the details of using Xdialog/dialog interchangeably, depending on whether X is running or not.

Peter


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