On 2007-09-21, Jiang Qian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all: > I'm trying to implement this script for checking whether I > forget to put on attachment. I try to follow this procedure: > http://wiki.mutt.org/?ConfigTricks/CheckAttach > The only difference is that I want to use a text based dialog > instead of zenity. The reason is that I'm accessing my mailbox on a > remote computer through ssh. I can forward Xdialog or zenith dialog box > via x11 over ssh, but that slows down the whole thing considerably, and > defeat the purpose of having a text based client. I'm a text console > purist:) > Now I wanted to to implement it in the following manner. In > place of zenity, I used > dialog --title "mutt" --clear \ > --yesno "Have you added your attachment?" 10 30 > The problem is that when I do this, the mutt simply hang on the > sending mail screen. My understanding is that zenity want to draw a > dialog box like this: > http://physics.harvard.edu/~jqian/dialog.png > But mutt does not surrender the text terminal display. I tried > various ways to suspend mutt but cannot get it to work. Is it a > fundamental limitation of mutt in text console, and I have to give up > and use graphic things like Xdialog or zenity instead? Or is there a way > to let mutt give up the screen for a sec and display my choice dialog?
Mutt doesn't lock the display when it calls sendmail--it has no means to do so--so this isn't a matter of mutt not surrendering the display. This appears to be a problem with your script. Not being able to see or try your script, it's hard to tell. This is just a hunch, but since the script's stdin is connected to a pipe from which it receives the message text, you may have to tell dialog to use /dev/tty as its stdin and/or stdout, something like this: dialog --yesno "Can you see me now?" 20 20 < /dev/tty > /dev/tty HTH, Gary
