How to pop-up boxes and notifications from scripts? (SOLVED)

[UncleScrooge]

Hello,

BionicPup64 8.0

from one of my scripts I need to popup messages for the user to interact.
Mainly to stop one or more undergoing child processes running asynchronous.
So each widget is supposed to have just one button (i'd be fine with "OK" allthough I'd rather choose myself the button caption)

I thought tu use Zenity but it doesn't seem to do what eevn the zenity -help says.

Also: how do I show popup notifications like those from the network manager or the pup-save? I mean: my own notifications,

as usual thnx in advance for the help.

[6502coder]

Try Xdialog. There are lots of good tutorials if you just Google it. Here's just one example:

https://linuxgazette.net/101/sunil.html

[Mike Walsh]

@ UncleScrooge:-

There's several methods for doing this in Puppy, and much of it comes down to personal preference.

You yourself mentioned Zenity (now YAD). 6502coder has given you Xdialog. We also have gtkdialog - built-in to Puppy; there's pupmessage (mainly older Pups, and superseded in newer Pups by the item it was always dependent on, gxmessage).

So; to re-cap:-

- Zenity/YAD
- Xdialog
- gtk-dialog
- pupmessage
- gxmessage

Gxmessage, the way it displays, requires a click on the 'OK' button to clear it, before whatever process/script it's used in can continue. Which could answer one of your requirements, at least....

Gtk-dialog has an entire thread devoted to it, as does YAD:-

Gtk-dialog - http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=38608

YAD - http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=97458

Any good?


Mike.

[williams2]

Also, if it hasn't been mentioned already,

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notify-send -t 5000 "starting Firefox ..."
notify-send "click me"

[phat7]

Also: how do I show popup notifications like those from the network manager or the pup-save? I mean: my own notifications,

yaf-splash -bg yellow -text "My own notification"

[UncleScrooge]

Thanx to y'all folks

U ROCK!!