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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to refresh a graphical display through bash script Post 302541789 by ddspark on Monday 25th of July 2011 06:04:27 PM
Old 07-25-2011
How to refresh a graphical display through bash script

Hi folks ,

I need to display a message graphically using a messagebox or textbox through bash script. However the message should be keep changing every 4 secs . I input the message from a file and use "gxmessage" to display it .

Code:
gxmessage -nofocus -center -title "Welcome screen" -geometry "600,600" -wrap -file $random

Where "$random" is some random data from a file.
But the problem is , how should I refresh the same gxmessage message box,putting different message each time .

I thought of

Code:
while :
do
        sleep 4
        if ps | grep "gxmessage"
        then
                killall -9 "gxmessage"
        fi
        gxmessage -nofocus -center -title "Welcome screen" -geometry "600,600" -wrap -file $random &
 done &

I hate this solution and it looks ugly too , because it is visible that the message box is getting killed and forked every time .

Can't I use the same gxmessage message box for all the messages just by putting new messages and hence refreshing the same box.
Any idea , anything other than gxmessage will do , if a solution is somewhere else.

And I am a newbie Smilie

Thanks.
D.
 

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atf-sh [-s shell] -- interpreter for shell-based test programs SYNOPSIS
atf-sh script DESCRIPTION
atf-sh is an interpreter that runs the test program given in script after loading the atf-sh(3) library. atf-sh is not a real interpreter though: it is just a wrapper around the system-wide shell defined by ATF_SHELL. atf-sh executes the inter- preter, loads the atf-sh(3) library and then runs the script. You must consider atf-sh to be a POSIX shell by default and thus should not use any non-standard extensions. The following options are available: -s shell Specifies the shell to use instead of the value provided by ATF_SHELL. ENVIRONMENT
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