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On 21/10/18 06:05, Brian wrote: > On Sat 20 Oct 2018 at 07:19:50 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: >> Had never heard of 'zenity'. I browsed the text of the page. To >> read it as intended I'll have to use an alternate profile -- it >> expects "features" I've explicitly disabled. >> >> I searched for 'zenity tutorials'. The first few I found >> encourage further investigation. > > I'd stay awy from zenity if I were you. The same advice applies to > yad. As for dialog - don't go near it. You will be a lot happier. Zenity looks pretty ordinary. Lots of output to terminal, chose random date, saw as follows: $ zenity --calendar --text='When is your birthday?' --title='Example 1' (zenity:28755): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:154:27: The style property GtkButton:image-spacing is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version (zenity:28755): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:155:26: The style property GtkButton:inner-border is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version (zenity:28755): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:584:27: The style property GtkButton:image-spacing is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version (zenity:28755): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:585:28: The style property GtkWidget:interior-focus is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version (zenity:28755): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:586:28: The style property GtkButton:default-border is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version (zenity:28755): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:587:26: The style property GtkButton:inner-border is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version (zenity:28755): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:1344:25: The style property GtkRange:slider-width is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version (zenity:28755): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:1345:25: The style property GtkRange:stepper-size is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version (zenity:28755): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:1347:28: The style property GtkRange:stepper-spacing is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version (zenity:28755): Gtk-WARNING **: Theme parsing error: gtk-widgets.css:1348:34: The style property GtkRange:trough-under-steppers is deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore. It will be removed in a future version Gtk-Message: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged. 25/10/18 Cheers A -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEAREIAB0WIQTJAoMHtC6YydLfjUOoFmvLt+/i+wUCW8w+JQAKCRCoFmvLt+/i +4xwAQDVkeoD6fTPiv60pYDuwJB0fg2ZW8YIUW1gt2sGvwC+HQD+Mjp5JdaF/kez KBCN3t8QIsSWeymUYP4Uh/zgXox95GM= =5Wsf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
