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If you just need to display some text or at most you need a "yes/no" answer that integrates well with your bash script, you could try herbe[1]. I was somewhat inspired by zenity, but it felt too heavy for my minimal use case. [1] https://github.com/dudik/herbe
Did you wind up picking something else?
If you just need to display some text or at most you need a "yes/no" answer that integrates well with your bash script, you could try herbe[1]. I was somewhat inspired by zenity, but it felt too heavy for my minimal use case. [1] https://github.com/dudik/herbe
Try `notify-send TEXT` instead. E.g. alias n="notify-send Completed."
If you just need to display some text or at most you need a "yes/no" answer that integrates well with your bash script, you could try herbe[1]. I was somewhat inspired by zenity, but it felt too heavy for my minimal use case. [1] https://github.com/dudik/herbe
Too heavy? The executable I just built is 19K. I like it for localhost. Did you wind up picking something else?
Old ideas are often the best ones, why shove everything down the drain every five years?
"Tired of displaying raw text on Console?" Nope. I am a scripter. I will never get tired of raw text, but I sure get tired of GUIs, fast. If the author had pitched this as a way to make the scripter's scripts accessible to others who do not understand scripts, I would have a different response.
Scripts are useful, even to the non-technical. Easily adding some GUI to a user-facing script is a good thing.
I don't understand this recent trend of modernizing things just for the sake of modernity. Old ideas are often the best ones, why shove everything down the drain every five years?
I always thought shell scripts are intended to avoid using GUI altogether?
If you think it was to avoid using a gui, I would have to say that's not really it.
It's more to do something (automate stuff) rather than not do something.
I learned about zenity but chose yad instead - it has the same interface + a few more bells and whistles.
What it's good for is launching something you'll do on your primary display, that has a lot of options that you might change individually.
probably also good for a phone. I learned about yad reading this article:
https://wp.puri.sm/posts/easy-librem-5-app-development-flash...