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stwissel
stwissel

Reputation: 20384

Tool to create UI for Linux (Gnome) shell scripts

I'm writing a bunch of Linux shell scripts with complex selections. For now I use zenity for prompts. I'd rather use something where I can show more than one UI element at a time and query it in a script (e.g. a list and some checkboxed and a file picker and an entry field. What are my options?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2622

Answers (5)

DocSalvager
DocSalvager

Reputation: 2254

Yad is a fork of Zenity that adds almost as much functionality as Gtkdialog. Mostly backward compatible too.

Upvotes: 1

jep
jep

Reputation: 387

zenity 3 now has a option to create a form with multiple elements. See the following bug report

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412493

Upvotes: 1

Diego Torres Milano
Diego Torres Milano

Reputation: 69258

autoglade could also be of help to give your scripts of commands a graphical user interface, in many cases with no additional programming.

Some docs and tutorials can be found here.

Upvotes: 1

user50049
user50049

Reputation:

I believe GTKDialog comes with extended gtk-ified versions of the popular curses based dialog utility for shell scripts.

I'm not sure if it will serve the complexity of your needs, however. In any event, its a place to start.

Upvotes: 2

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams

Reputation: 798814

You're going to have to move up to something more capable. PyGTK with Glade is fairly powerful, and Python is easy enough to pick up.

Upvotes: 2

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