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xfce / bash: gui elements in shell script

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I have a minimal installation with xfce as the default window manager. Is it somehow possible to write a shell script with simple gui elements? Or do I to install something else (which I am reluctant to do, I want to keep the number of installed packages (size) to a minimum).

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answered 2 Years ago calcur · Accepted Answer

Try Zenity:

" Zenity allows you to display GTK+ dialogs from shell scripts".

It's pretty minimalistic, here are the dependencies, many of these should already be present on an xfce system:

Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.24.0), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.0.0), libnotify4 (>= 0.7.0), libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 (>= 1.3.10), libx11-6, zenity-common (= 3.2.0-0ubuntu1)