[openbox] How to display an openbox <prompt> box laucnh from batch

[Cedric Sodhi]

I think he meant how to use this very function which is included in openbox, not what other programs exist to achieve the same.

On 09/09/2010 07:15 AM, Anthony Thyssen wrote:
>
> On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 20:53:23 +0200
> MangezDesChips<mangezdeschips at gmail.com>  wrote:
> | Hello,
> |
> | I love the<prompt>  openbox Global action. I have a script that checks if
> | some devices are mounted before launching audio calculations. If the devices
> | are not mounted I want to display a YES/NO prompt box like openbox one. Do
> | you know if openbox permit to launch that event from batch ?
> |
> | Thanks for help !!
> |
> | Kheraud
>
> You can pop up prompt requests like that (and more) using quite a number
> of X window utilities.
>
>     Zenity  is a gnome tool that is very common.
>
>           zenity --question --title "Question" --text 'To be of not to be?'
>           echo "the result was $?"
>
>     The return status tell you what was selected.
>     Has LOTS more features.
>
>
>     xprompt       String input entry program
>
>
>     xmenu         popup a menu of choices
>
>
>     XMessage  is another (older) one that also can be used to display files
>     or have multiply answers. I use it for a multi-question logout...
>
>     buttons='Poweroff:14,Reboot:13,Restart:12,Logout:11,Cancle:0'
>
>     xmessage -name xlogout -title xlogout \
>        -geometry $logout_geometry -fg Gold -bg Navy  -buttons "$buttons" \
>        -xrm '*message.borderWidth: 0' \
>        -xrm '*message.scrollVertical: Never' \
>        -xrm '*Font: -*-new cent*-bold-r-normal--18-*' \
>        'Are You Sure?'
>
>     case $result in
>      0) # ---- Cancel the Action ----
>         ;;                     # just loop -- do nothing
>     11) # User specifically asked to logout
>         LOGOUT=true
>         break
>         ;;
>     12) # ---- Restart all Clients ----
>         xclosedown             # close all client windows
>         killall -q gnome-panel # just in case.
>         killall -q gconfd-2    # gnome fails to start if this is running
>         # If a client was killed without removing the motif drag property then
>         # motif clients on the rerun will Bus Error as property does not point
>         # to a vaild window.  Ensure it is removed, so this does not happen.
>         xprop -root -remove _MOTIF_DRAG_WINDOW 2>/dev/null
>         # Now re-start clients and loop
>         clients
>         ;;
>     13) # logout and reboot machine
>         REBOOT=true
>         break
>         ;;
>     14) # logout and poweroff
>         POWEROFF=true
>         break
>         ;;
>      *) # ---- ErrorExit (1) ----
>         break   # Window or Display was killed
>         ;;
>     esac
>
>
> Their are many many many such programs out their!!!
> Most I have tried out at some point in time.
>
>
>
>    Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer )<A.Thyssen at griffith.edu.au>
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