On Tue, 28 Mar 2017 21:26:43 +0200 Floris <jkflo...@dds.nl> wrote: >Op Tue, 28 Mar 2017 04:03:20 +0200 schreef Jason <elect...@emypeople.net>: > >> On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 22:03:33 +0200 >> Floris <jkflo...@dds.nl> wrote: >> >>> Op Fri, 24 Mar 2017 23:33:06 +0100 schreef Jason >>> <elect...@emypeople.net>: >>> >>>> In interactive shell scripts I like piping output into zenity >>>> --text-info for display. If >>>> the output is more than fits in the zenity window, any additional lines >>>> will be too far >>>> down to display unless the user manually scrolls down to the bottom of >>>> the text. >>>> >>>> Does anyone know if there is a way to tell zenity to automatically >>>> scroll down as lines >>>> are added so that the last lines are always visible? This way the >>>> output >>>> of the current >>>> action would be displaying at the bottom of the zenity dialog box, >>>> instead of not being >>>> visible. >>>> >>>> Using zenity 3.4.0-2 on Debian 8.1. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Thanks. >>>> Jason >>>> >>> >>> perhaps you can use yad, a fork of zenity, with the tail option: >>> https://packages.debian.org/sid/yad >>> >>> $ yad --help-text >>> Usage: >>> yad [OPTION...] - Yet another dialoging program >>> >>> Text information options >>> --text-info Display text >>> information >>> dialog >>> --fore=COLOR Use specified color for >>> text >>> --back=COLOR Use specified color for >>> background >>> --wrap Enable text wrapping >>> --justify=TYPE Set justification >>> (left, >>> right, center or fill) >>> --margins=SIZE Set text margins >>> --tail Autoscroll to end of >>> text >>> --show-cursor Show cursor in >>> read-only >>> mode >>> --show-uri Make URI clickable >>> --uri-color=COLOR Use specified color for >>> links >>> >>> >>> success, >>> >>> floris >> >> Thanks for the suggestion; it sounds like something that would work. >> Unfortunately, I >> must work with something that already exists on my target systems >> (zenity does but not >> yad) as it is not an option to add programs on some of these systems. Of >> course, you >> could not know that as I had not stated it in my original post. >> >> Thanks for your reply! >> Jason >> > >Is it possible to update to version 3.12 or higher? >https://download.gnome.org/sources/zenity/3.12/zenity-3.12.1.news >Zenity 3.12.1 > ... > - Bug #667711 - man page points to nonexisting doc (Arx Cruz) > - Bug #600533 zenity --text-info should have an auto scroll option >(Arx Cruz) > - Bug #534935 Need hability to specify default answer in >--question dialog (Berislav Kovacki) > ... > >Floris
That is the answer I needed - now using version 3.14.0 and auto-scroll works! (As an aside, I did not actually install the package but just extracted the zenity binary from its .deb and it executes fine on a system that only has version 3.4.0 officially installed.) Thanks all! Jason
