Gui Dialog Tool?

[daniel3000]

Hello,

does anyone know a command line tool, preferably based on GTK, which allows to present BUI dialogs to the user with some limited interaction?

I.e. a tool which can be used from within a shell script to let the user interact with the shell script without letting the user ever see that it IS a shell script?

Simple ialogs like "some text [OK]" and "some text [Yes] [No]" would be enough.

Thanks a lot!
daniel

[Meanie]

Hello,

does anyone know a command line tool, preferably based on GTK, which allows to present BUI dialogs to the user with some limited interaction?

I.e. a tool which can be used from within a shell script to let the user interact with the shell script without letting the user ever see that it IS a shell script?

Simple ialogs like "some text [OK]" and "some text [Yes] [No]" would be enough.

Thanks a lot!
daniel
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xdialog is what you want then  it's in the feed I believe.

[daniel3000]

Great, thanks! :-)

[daniel3000]

I have a problem. Maybe someone can help? I have no knowledge about the font system in X, just read a few web pages about it but could not solve the problem:

The font in a msgbox of Xdialog is very small and fixed-width. I'd rather like to have a proportional and larger font.

So I used the Xdialog parameter --rc-file ~/.gtkrc.xdialog and created the file ~/.gtkrc.xdialog:

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style "Default" {
fontset = "-misc-*-*-*-*-*-*-200-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-1"
}
class "*" style "Default"
I used xfontsel to determine that font string in the rc file.

This gives a larger font, but it looks like wrongly decoded Unicode (i.e. alternating characters with dotted boxes like this).

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T_h_i_s_ _i_s_ _a_ _m_s_g_._(underscore representing a rectangular box)

So I changed ISO8859-1 to UTF-8 which made no difference.

Then I found on the web some additional fonts to install here.

Basically, I did this:

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   # cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
 Â   # tar xjf /tmp/artwiz-fonts.tar.bz2
 Â   # cd fluxbox-artwiz-fonts
 Â   # mkfontdir
 Â   # chkfontpath -q -a /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/fluxbox-artwiz-fonts:unscaled
(the last command chkfontpath was not available on pdaXrom, so I omitted it).

Restarting X and xfontsel: The new fonts are NOT shown.

So I am at two dead ends here:

1. How to fix the unicode problem?
2. How to install new fonts?

Any pointers are welcome! Thanks a lot!
daniel

[daniel3000]

Even that did not help.


Xdialog works fine, except that the fonts are too small and I am not able to configure it to use another font.

Is there an alternative to Xdialog I could try?

Thanks
daniel