Tech Tip: Use gxmessage for Displaying GUI Messages from Scripts

Courtesy Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community  Thu, 01/28/2010 - 12:10

There are many dialog programs out there, Zenity, Kdialog, xdialog, etc. I love programs like these. They make it so easy to spice up a shell script with a little GUI action.

Today I'm going to go look at a dialog program called gxmessage.

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