[H-GEN] comsat/biff question (fwd)

[Byron Ellacott]

On Wed, Aug 19, 1998 at 07:36:04AM +1000, Christopher Biggs wrote:
> > So I was kinda hoping there was some program that I could call in a
> > script that will open a dialog box on a particular display.... anyone
> > know of such a beastie?
> The wee tools that are used in the Linux kernel config process?
> There's the text "dialog" tools, and ISTR the X equivalent uses the Tk
> widgets for the fancy equivalent.  If you write your event handler in
> Perl or Tcl you get X (via Tk) for free (cue python bigot!).
$ apt-get install gnome-utils
...
$ gdialog <dialog arguments>
.. produces a graphical display if $DISPLAY exists, or uses the
original dialog(1) behaviour otherwise.  And it's themed because gtk+
is themed. :)

I choose to refrain from the parenthesis madness (mostly).

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