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I hope anyone who uses something like this has the grace to fall back to https://linux.die.net/man/1/dialog https://linux.die.net/man/1/dialog for non-GUI users

by dmd 1y ago

I hope anyone who uses something like this has the grace to fall back to https://linux.die.net/man/1/dialog https://linux.die.net/man/1/dialog for non-GUI users. Or https://github.com/Textualize/textual https://github.com/Textualize/textual if they want to be faaaaancy.

ddingus 1y ago
On my Note phone, I just tried dialog. Spiffy! I used Termux, and did this for a hello world: pkg install dialog dialog "hello there" 20 3 And BAM! There it is rendered in text, easy peasy. Thanks for the reference. I agree with you.
dazzawazza 1y ago
man that's an ugly man page. The FreeBSD one is a lot easier to read. https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dialog https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dialog
ddingus 1y ago
Well, after a bit of fiddling, Textual also worked on my Android running Termux. Spiffy! I like this one a bit less than I do the all text mode, though I will have to go through a bunch of widgets to see if that remains true. Requiring Python seems a bit excessive, compared to the other one with works more lime the author intended, I believe. Thanks for these. Interesting to look at.
- dmd 1y ago
  Textual is new and fancy. Dialog has been on pretty much every linux system for a quarter century.
  - ddingus 1y ago
    Yes. It shows. I like that quarter century stuff.
florianist 1y ago
Or for those won't don't want to install dialog, just do your ui forms directly from the shell: https://github.com/polijan/sourcedialog https://github.com/polijan/sourcedialog