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Anton Aylward

3 Nov 2020 3 Nov '20

13:20

My default web browser is Firefox. I normally click on a URL in a Thunderbird message to open that. Recently Medium.com have altered their style sheet so that there is conflict with the settings i have for my Firefox. Rather than try to battle this I open the medium.com pages in Chromium, which is set to strip out style. I get to read the article and see the illustrations without the 'dress-up'. Is there some way that I can set the Thunderbird to decide which web browser to use? Well, obviously, I could alter the T'Bird setting to use a shell script which makes that decision, but are there any other ways? -- “Reality is so complex, we must move away from dogma, whether it’s conspiracy theories or free-market,” -- James Glattfelder. http://jth.ch/jbg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

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Carlos E. R.

4 Nov 4 Nov

09:50

On 03/11/2020 14.20, Anton Aylward wrote:

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My default web browser is Firefox. I normally click on a URL in a Thunderbird message to open that.

Recently Medium.com have altered their style sheet so that there is conflict with the settings i have for my Firefox. Rather than try to battle this I open the medium.com pages in Chromium, which is set to strip out style. I get to read the article and see the illustrations without the 'dress-up'.

Is there some way that I can set the Thunderbird to decide which web browser to use?

I don't think so.

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Well, obviously, I could alter the T'Bird setting to use a shell script which makes that decision, but are there any other ways?

Not a bad idea. How could that script ask which one to use? You gave me the idea of a script for me, but I would need a menu to do the choice, but there is no terminal assigned. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)

Simon Lees

5 Nov 5 Nov

08:51

On 11/4/20 8:20 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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On 03/11/2020 14.20, Anton Aylward wrote:

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My default web browser is Firefox. I normally click on a URL in a Thunderbird message to open that.

Recently Medium.com have altered their style sheet so that there is conflict with the settings i have for my Firefox. Rather than try to battle this I open the medium.com pages in Chromium, which is set to strip out style. I get to read the article and see the illustrations without the 'dress-up'.

Is there some way that I can set the Thunderbird to decide which web browser to use?

I don't think so.

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Well, obviously, I could alter the T'Bird setting to use a shell script which makes that decision, but are there any other ways?

Not a bad idea. How could that script ask which one to use? You gave me the idea of a script for me, but I would need a menu to do the choice, but there is no terminal assigned.

You could maybe have fun with kdialog but I haven't looked at that in detail. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B

Carlos E. R.

10:45

On 05/11/2020 09.51, Simon Lees wrote:

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On 11/4/20 8:20 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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On 03/11/2020 14.20, Anton Aylward wrote:

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Well, obviously, I could alter the T'Bird setting to use a shell script which makes that decision, but are there any other ways?

Not a bad idea. How could that script ask which one to use? You gave me the idea of a script for me, but I would need a menu to do the choice, but there is no terminal assigned.

You could maybe have fun with kdialog but I haven't looked at that in detail.

I forgot about that one... but it has no man/info page. Only a 14 line README. And a syntax help when calling it with no parameters. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)

Ianseeks

12:43

On Thursday, 5 November 2020 10:45:18 GMT Carlos E. R. wrote:

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On 05/11/2020 09.51, Simon Lees wrote:

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On 11/4/20 8:20 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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On 03/11/2020 14.20, Anton Aylward wrote:

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Well, obviously, I could alter the T'Bird setting to use a shell script which makes that decision, but are there any other ways?

Not a bad idea. How could that script ask which one to use? You gave me the idea of a script for me, but I would need a menu to do the choice, but there is no terminal assigned.

You could maybe have fun with kdialog but I haven't looked at that in detail.

I forgot about that one... but it has no man/info page. Only a 14 line README. And a syntax help when calling it with no parameters.

here is a good page https://tinyurl.com/nl4nzo9 -- opensuse:tumbleweed:20201029 Qt: 5.15.1 KDE Frameworks: 5.75.0 - KDE Plasma: 5.20.1 - kwin 5.20.1 kmail2 5.15.2 (20.08.2) - akonadiserver 5.15.2 (20.08.2) - Kernel: 5.9.1-1-default - xf86-video-nouveau: 1.0.16 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Carlos E. R.

13:01

On 05/11/2020 13.43, Ianseeks wrote:

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On Thursday, 5 November 2020 10:45:18 GMT Carlos E. R. wrote:

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On 05/11/2020 09.51, Simon Lees wrote:

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On 11/4/20 8:20 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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On 03/11/2020 14.20, Anton Aylward wrote:

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Well, obviously, I could alter the T'Bird setting to use a shell script which makes that decision, but are there any other ways?

Not a bad idea. How could that script ask which one to use? You gave me the idea of a script for me, but I would need a menu to do the choice, but there is no terminal assigned.

You could maybe have fun with kdialog but I haven't looked at that in detail.

I forgot about that one... but it has no man/info page. Only a 14 line README. And a syntax help when calling it with no parameters.

here is a good page https://tinyurl.com/nl4nzo9

Ah, thanks. It is curious, looking at example 8. I run from terminal: kdialog --msgbox "Password correct.\n About to connect to server" And the dialong says "Kial" in the bar, not kdialog as in the doc. I wonder, is there some other dialog think that is not tied to a desktop type? This think is KDE, I use XFCE. Ah, yes, there is "dialog(1)". But maybe this is a terminal dialog thing? tcl/tk? -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)

Ianseeks

18:27

On Thursday, 5 November 2020 13:01:21 GMT Carlos E. R. wrote:

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On 05/11/2020 13.43, Ianseeks wrote: snip

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You could maybe have fun with kdialog but I haven't looked at that in detail.

I forgot about that one... but it has no man/info page. Only a 14 line README. And a syntax help when calling it with no parameters.

here is a good page https://tinyurl.com/nl4nzo9

Ah, thanks.

It is curious, looking at example 8. I run from terminal:

kdialog --msgbox "Password correct.\n About to connect to server"

And the dialong says "Kial" in the bar, not kdialog as in the doc.

I wonder, is there some other dialog think that is not tied to a desktop type? This think is KDE, I use XFCE.

Ah, yes, there is "dialog(1)". But maybe this is a terminal dialog thing?

tcl/tk?

I use it on KDE, my logout script runs it showing the progress of my rsync backup.

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J Leslie Turriff

18:54

New subject: [opensuse] Re: Click to open web browser - but which one

On 2020-11-05 12:27:38 Ianseeks wrote:

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On Thursday, 5 November 2020 13:01:21 GMT Carlos E. R. wrote:

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On 05/11/2020 13.43, Ianseeks wrote:

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You could maybe have fun with kdialog but I haven't looked at that in detail.

I forgot about that one... but it has no man/info page. Only a 14 line README. And a syntax help when calling it with no parameters.

here is a good page https://tinyurl.com/nl4nzo9

Ah, thanks.

It is curious, looking at example 8. I run from terminal:

kdialog --msgbox "Password correct.\n About to connect to server"

And the dialong says "Kial" in the bar, not kdialog as in the doc.

I wonder, is there some other dialog think that is not tied to a desktop type? This think is KDE, I use XFCE.

Ah, yes, there is "dialog(1)". But maybe this is a terminal dialog thing?

tcl/tk?

I use it on KDE, my logout script runs it showing the progress of my rsync backup.

Perhaps xdialog is more DM-independent? http://xdialog.free.fr/ Leslie -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Carlos E. R.

20:24

New subject: [opensuse] Re: Click to open web browser - but which one

On 05/11/2020 19.54, J Leslie Turriff wrote:

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On 2020-11-05 12:27:38 Ianseeks wrote:

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I wonder, is there some other dialog think that is not tied to a desktop type? This think is KDE, I use XFCE.

Ah, yes, there is "dialog(1)". But maybe this is a terminal dialog thing?

tcl/tk?

I use it on KDE, my logout script runs it showing the progress of my rsync backup.

Perhaps xdialog is more DM-independent? http://xdialog.free.fr/

Ah, yes. Curious, "cnf" does not find it. Nor "https://software.opensuse.org/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&baseproject=openSUSE%3ALeap%3A15.1&q=Xdialog" - but zypper does find and install it. Has local examples and documentation - no, it has not: they should be in "/usr/share/doc/Xdialog-2.3.1/samples/" but they aren't. There are files in /usr/share/doc/packages/Xdialog/*, but not the samples directory. Testing: cer@Telcontar:~> bash /usr/share/doc/packages/Xdialog/yesno Yes chosen. cer@Telcontar:~> Ok! I will try to use this one. :-) Thanks! -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)

Patrick Shanahan

20:53

New subject: [opensuse] Re: Click to open web browser - but which one

* Carlos E. R. [11-05-20 15:24]:

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On 05/11/2020 19.54, J Leslie Turriff wrote:

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On 2020-11-05 12:27:38 Ianseeks wrote:

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I wonder, is there some other dialog think that is not tied to a desktop type? This think is KDE, I use XFCE.

Ah, yes, there is "dialog(1)". But maybe this is a terminal dialog thing?

tcl/tk?

I use it on KDE, my logout script runs it showing the progress of my rsync backup.

Perhaps xdialog is more DM-independent? http://xdialog.free.fr/

Ah, yes. Curious, "cnf" does not find it. Nor "https://software.opensuse.org/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&baseproject=openSUSE%3ALeap%3A15.1&q=Xdialog"

cnf Xdialog The program 'Xdialog' can be found in the following package: * Xdialog [ path: /usr/bin/Xdialog, repository: zypp (Tumbleweed_Education) ] Try installing with: sudo zypper install Xdialog 15:49 crash:~ > opi xdialog Searching... 1. Xdialog 2. perl-Tk-XDialogBox Choose a number(0 to quit):

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- but zypper does find and install it. Has local examples and documentation - no, it has not: they should be in "/usr/share/doc/Xdialog-2.3.1/samples/" but they aren't.

There are files in /usr/share/doc/packages/Xdialog/*, but not the samples directory.

Testing:

cer@Telcontar:~> bash /usr/share/doc/packages/Xdialog/yesno Yes chosen. cer@Telcontar:~>

Ok! I will try to use this one. :-)

-- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Carlos E. R.

21:09

New subject: [opensuse] Re: Click to open web browser - but which one

On 05/11/2020 21.53, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Carlos E. R. <> [11-05-20 15:24]:

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On 05/11/2020 19.54, J Leslie Turriff wrote:

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On 2020-11-05 12:27:38 Ianseeks wrote:

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I wonder, is there some other dialog think that is not tied to a desktop type? This think is KDE, I use XFCE.

Ah, yes, there is "dialog(1)". But maybe this is a terminal dialog thing?

tcl/tk?

I use it on KDE, my logout script runs it showing the progress of my rsync backup.

Perhaps xdialog is more DM-independent? http://xdialog.free.fr/

Ah, yes. Curious, "cnf" does not find it. Nor "https://software.opensuse.org/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&baseproject=openSUSE%3ALeap%3A15.1&q=Xdialog"

cnf Xdialog

cer@Telcontar:~> cnf xdialog xdialog: command not found cer@Telcontar:~> I did not know it was X, not x (see the previous post). -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)

Patrick Shanahan

22:19

New subject: [opensuse] Re: Click to open web browser - but which one

* Carlos E. R. [11-05-20 16:10]:

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On 05/11/2020 21.53, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Carlos E. R. <> [11-05-20 15:24]:

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On 05/11/2020 19.54, J Leslie Turriff wrote:

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On 2020-11-05 12:27:38 Ianseeks wrote:

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I wonder, is there some other dialog think that is not tied to a desktop type? This think is KDE, I use XFCE.

Ah, yes, there is "dialog(1)". But maybe this is a terminal dialog thing?

tcl/tk?

I use it on KDE, my logout script runs it showing the progress of my rsync backup.

Perhaps xdialog is more DM-independent? http://xdialog.free.fr/

Ah, yes. Curious, "cnf" does not find it. Nor "https://software.opensuse.org/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&baseproject=openSUSE%3ALeap%3A15.1&q=Xdialog"

cnf Xdialog

cer@Telcontar:~> cnf xdialog xdialog: command not found cer@Telcontar:~>

I did not know it was X, not x (see the previous post).

you were quite happy earlier days with an app (cannot recall the name, aged memory) that found applications, why not now utilize "opi" which appears capitolized agnostic. 17:17 crash:~ > opi xdialog Searching... 1. Xdialog 2. perl-Tk-XDialogBox Choose a number(0 to quit): -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Carlos E. R.

23:00

New subject: [opensuse] Re: Click to open web browser - but which one

On 05/11/2020 23.19, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Carlos E. R. [11-05-20 16:10]:

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On 05/11/2020 21.53, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Carlos E. R. <> [11-05-20 15:24]:

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On 05/11/2020 19.54, J Leslie Turriff wrote:

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On 2020-11-05 12:27:38 Ianseeks wrote:

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> I wonder, is there some other dialog think that is not tied to a desktop > type? This think is KDE, I use XFCE. > > Ah, yes, there is "dialog(1)". But maybe this is a terminal dialog thing? > > tcl/tk?

I use it on KDE, my logout script runs it showing the progress of my rsync backup.

Perhaps xdialog is more DM-independent? http://xdialog.free.fr/

Ah, yes. Curious, "cnf" does not find it. Nor "https://software.opensuse.org/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&baseproject=openSUSE%3ALeap%3A15.1&q=Xdialog"

cnf Xdialog

cer@Telcontar:~> cnf xdialog xdialog: command not found cer@Telcontar:~>

I did not know it was X, not x (see the previous post).

you were quite happy earlier days with an app (cannot recall the name, aged memory) that found applications, why not now utilize "opi" which appears capitolized agnostic.

17:17 crash:~ > opi xdialog Searching... 1. Xdialog 2. perl-Tk-XDialogBox Choose a number(0 to quit):

I did, but after posting. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)

J Leslie Turriff

6 Nov 6 Nov

04:39

New subject: [opensuse] Re: Click to open web browser - but which one

On 2020-11-05 16:19:26 Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Carlos E. R. [11-05-20 16:10]:

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On 05/11/2020 21.53, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Carlos E. R. <> [11-05-20 15:24]:

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On 05/11/2020 19.54, J Leslie Turriff wrote:

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On 2020-11-05 12:27:38 Ianseeks wrote:

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> I wonder, is there some other dialog think that is not tied to > a desktop type? This think is KDE, I use XFCE. > > Ah, yes, there is "dialog(1)". But maybe this is a terminal > dialog thing? > > tcl/tk?

I use it on KDE, my logout script runs it showing the progress of my rsync backup.

Perhaps xdialog is more DM-independent? http://xdialog.free.fr/

Ah, yes. Curious, "cnf" does not find it. Nor "https://software.opensuse.org/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&baseproject=open SUSE%3ALeap%3A15.1&q=Xdialog"

cnf Xdialog

cer@Telcontar:~> cnf xdialog xdialog: command not found cer@Telcontar:~>

I did not know it was X, not x (see the previous post).

you were quite happy earlier days with an app (cannot recall the name, aged memory) that found applications, why not now utilize "opi" which appears capitolized agnostic.

"opi". Yet another command with a meaningless, unmemorable name. Who comes up with these, and why? Leslie -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Carlos E. R.

11:27

New subject: [opensuse] Re: Click to open web browser - but which one

On 06/11/2020 05.39, J Leslie Turriff wrote:

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On 2020-11-05 16:19:26 Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* Carlos E. R. <> [11-05-20 16:10]:

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you were quite happy earlier days with an app (cannot recall the name, aged memory) that found applications, why not now utilize "opi" which appears capitolized agnostic.

"opi". Yet another command with a meaningless, unmemorable name. Who comes up with these, and why?

:-D I read it somewhere. Let me see... cer@Telcontar:~> whatis opi opi (8) - manual page for opi 0.9.0 cer@Telcontar:~> man opi The full documentation for opi is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and opi programs are properly installed at your site, the command info opi should give you access to the complete manual. cer@Telcontar:~> info opi The full documentation for opi is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and opi programs are properly installed at your site, the command ... Gosh. cer@Telcontar:~> which opi /usr/bin/opi cer@Telcontar:~> head /usr/bin/opi #!/usr/bin/perl # # OPI - openSUSE Build Service Package Installer # # Author: Guo Yunhe # Website: https://github.com/openSUSE/opi # License: GPL-3.0 use strict; use warnings; cer@Telcontar:~> Ok, found it! -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)

Anton Aylward

5 Nov 5 Nov

22:18

On 05/11/2020 08:01, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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On 05/11/2020 13.43, Ianseeks wrote:

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You could maybe have fun with kdialog but I haven't looked at that in detail.

I forgot about that one... but it has no man/info page. Only a 14 line README. And a syntax help when calling it with no parameters.

here is a good page https://tinyurl.com/nl4nzo9

Ah, thanks.

It is curious, looking at example 8. I run from terminal:

kdialog --msgbox "Password correct.\n About to connect to server"

I played with that and found it versatile. But then I'm a KDE user. I was actually hoping for an answer to my original question that didn't invovle a shell script. -- “Reality is so complex, we must move away from dogma, whether it’s conspiracy theories or free-market,” -- James Glattfelder. http://jth.ch/jbg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

jdd＠dodin.org

6 Nov 6 Nov

07:26

Le 05/11/2020 à 23:18, Anton Aylward a écrit :

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I was actually hoping for an answer to my original question that didn't invovle a shell script.

may be ask on Mozilla forum? jdd -- http://dodin.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Carlos E. R.

11:29

On 05/11/2020 23.18, Anton Aylward wrote:

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On 05/11/2020 08:01, Carlos E. R. wrote:

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On 05/11/2020 13.43, Ianseeks wrote:

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You could maybe have fun with kdialog but I haven't looked at that in detail.

I forgot about that one... but it has no man/info page. Only a 14 line README. And a syntax help when calling it with no parameters.

here is a good page https://tinyurl.com/nl4nzo9

Ah, thanks.

It is curious, looking at example 8. I run from terminal:

kdialog --msgbox "Password correct.\n About to connect to server"

I played with that and found it versatile. But then I'm a KDE user.

I was actually hoping for an answer to my original question that didn't invovle a shell script.

I know. But I think there isn't. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)

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