Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #247
> Date: 10 Feb 1999 11:38:30 -0600
> From: John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org>
> To: Debian User Mailing List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Subject: Re: slashdot poll
> Message-ID: <[🔎] 87d83ijh0p.fsf@hasler.dhh>
>
> Bruno Boettcher writes:
> > I never looked into vt-controls through perl, is there a way to make this
> > nice blue&red fullscreen windows with perl?
>
> whiptail.
>
whiptail flickers quite a bit between different screens. if that bothers you,
you might want to use the library whiptail uses for its screens / widgets:
libnewt
it should be possible to write a perl frontend for it, dont know if
its been done already.
-leon
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