> What if $USER doesn't have [X|K|G|*]dialog? or has moved or nuked it? > [$USER is capable of _anything_.]
He's likely to have xmessage. The man page illustrates some of the stuff you can do using buttons and some other widgets. Never used these other widgets though... On 8/17/05, Robert Thorsby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've knocked out a bash script that uses dialog boxes (Xdialog in this > case) to pass arguments to a perfectly good command line utility. The > idea is that a rodent-fixated $USER can satisfy his fetish by clicking > on a Desktop Icon. [Desktop Icons are those tiny graphic thingies that > live under xterms and deface your Megan Gale wallpaper.] > > Having punched out said script I suddenly had a Thought. [A Thought is > an explosion in the brain that turns very tired hackers into > insomniacs.] > > What if $USER doesn't have [X|K|G|*]dialog? or has moved or nuked it? > [$USER is capable of _anything_.] > > My first idea -- to add another dialog box into the script -- seemed to > cause a loop. So ..., why not use an xterm? But the "-e" option to > xterm seems to have very limited functionality. If I pass a message to > an ad hoc xterm it closes immediately because the "-e" option is > explicitly designed to terminate the xterm when the command has been > executed. Also, "-e" won't allow more than one command -- a > "restricted" xterm!? Further, the man page for xterm seems to give just > about every option known to mankind, except the one I want. > > My "solution", which follows, is a total kludge: > >>>>>>>>>>>> BEGIN SCRIPT SNIPPET <<<<<<<<<<<< > > #!/bin/bash > ... > TITLE="My Bash Wrapper Script" > XDIAL="/path/to/Xdialog" > ... > if [ ! -x "$XDIAL" ]; then > cat <<- EOF > "/tmp/emergency_script" > #!/bin/bash > > echo " $TITLE" > echo "I can't find the bloody Xdialog file?" > echo "It may be a permissions problem." > sleep 3 > EOF > chmod 700 "/tmp/emergency_script" > xterm -ut +l +ls +bc -font 10x20 -geometry 40x4 -title "$TITLE" \ > -mesg -e "/tmp/emergency_script" > rm "/tmp/emergency_script" > exit 1 > fi > ... > >>>>>>>>>>>>> END SCRIPT SNIPPET <<<<<<<<<<<<< > BTW, "emergency_script" still works if the shebang is absent. > > Finally, my question: > What is the correct way to do this? or a better way? or, even, The > Debian Way? > > TIA, > Robert Thorsby > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Julio C. Ody http://rootshell.be/~julioody -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
