Re: zenity --text-info autoscrolling?

[Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl>]

Op Fri, 24 Mar 2017 23:33:06 +0100 schreef Jason <electron@emypeople.net>:

> In interactive shell scripts I like piping output into zenity  
> --text-info for display. If
> the output is more than fits in the zenity window, any additional lines  
> will be too far
> down to display unless the user manually scrolls down to the bottom of  
> the text.
>
> Does anyone know if there is a way to tell zenity to automatically  
> scroll down as lines
> are added so that the last lines are always visible? This way the output  
> of the current
> action would be displaying at the bottom of the zenity dialog box,  
> instead of not being
> visible.
>
> Using zenity 3.4.0-2 on Debian 8.1.
>
> --
> Thanks.
> Jason

perhaps you can use yad, a fork of zenity, with the tail option:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/yad

$ yad --help-text
Usage:
  yad [OPTION...] - Yet another dialoging program

Text information options
  --text-info                                    Display text information  
dialog
  --fore=COLOR                                   Use specified color for  
text
  --back=COLOR                                   Use specified color for  
background
  --wrap                                         Enable text wrapping
  --justify=TYPE                                 Set justification (left,  
right, center or fill)
  --margins=SIZE                                 Set text margins
  --tail                                         Autoscroll to end of text
  --show-cursor                                  Show cursor in read-only  
mode
  --show-uri                                     Make URI clickable
  --uri-color=COLOR                              Use specified color for  
links


success,

floris