writing simple visual front ends to shell scripts for ubuntu

Tue Sep 13 04:57:18 UTC 2005

work system -> FC4 + KDE , dialog is a GUI app not curses.

On 13/09/05, Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> 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.
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> > 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.
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> Peter
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