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gdialog is a utility meant for use in shell scripts or from the command prompt. Hence, to run gdialog, the complete description needs to be given on the command line or in the shell script about the type of dialog box to be created and shown to the user. For example, type the following in a GNOME terminal, or put it in a shell script - gdialog --msgbox "Here's a test message !" 200 150 creates and displays the dialog box shown in .
The complete command line options list for gdialog is
gdialog [--title title] [--separate-output] [--backtitle backtitle] [--clear] Box options
title is used to give a title to the dialog.
"Box Options" can be one of the following
[--defaultno] --yesno text height width
--msgbox text height width
--infobox text height width
--inputbox text height width [init]
--textbox file height width
--menu text height width menu height tag1 item1 ...
--checklist text height width list height tag1 item1 status1 ...
--radiolist text height width list height tag1 item1 status1 ...
--gauge text height width percent
--guage file text height width percent
Using gdialog to show different types of dialog shown above is explained in the following sections.
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