[Wellington-pm] Roundup of Monday night's meeting

Enkidu enkidu at cliffp.com
Wed Dec 15 03:47:11 CST 2004


On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 10:49:19 +1300, you wrote:

>Hi Guys,
>
>Two command line tools for popping up a dialog box were also mentioned,
>gdialog and zenity.  It appears that in later times, debian has replaced
>gdialog with zenity, and gdialog simply wraps calls to zenity.
>
>Given this, I'd probably suggest using zenity if you can, it does have a
>few things that gdialog lacks.  To get you started, the obligatory hello
>world ;)
>
>zenity --info --text "Hello World"
>
What about "dialog" and "whiptail"?

Cheers,

Cliff
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