[LUNI] running iceWM?

[Steve Litt]

On Thursday 07 November 2002 12:27 pm, you wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 11:04:02AM -0600, abbey wrote:
> > Hello from iceWM!
>
> Good show, old bean.
>
> > Martin, I tried the .xession in vi even -- I know, you guys are
> > probably laughing over your terminals now -- but sometimes baby steps
> > are a good thing ;-)
>
> Oh, heck no - there are lots of ways to do these things, and as I had
> sort of expected, the script I threw together used at least one tool
> that's common (in base or required, in fact, IIRC) on a Debian system
> but is not so commonly available elsewhere.
>
> Whiptail is....
>
> Description: Displays user-friendly dialog boxes from shell scripts.
>  whiptail is a "dialog" replacement using newt instead of ncurses. It
>  provides a method of displaying several different types of dialog boxes
>  from shell scripts. This allows a developer of a script to interact with
>  the user in a much friendlier manner.
>
> I suspect that "dialog" is even less likely to be present on a
> non-Debian, since it depends on debianutils, though it has, aside from
> that, fewer and more basic dependencies (libc and ncurses are pretty
> widely available <smile>).
>
> And I see I was wrong: whiptail is only "standard" priority.  It's
> really a good deal more than is required here - less than a dozen lines
> of shell script ought to be enough to present a simple menu in that
> xterm.  Whiptail makes for a nice text-mode interactive menu, but I
> would never have bothered with it if I'd had to go out and get it.
> Then again, this was done mostly for Cally, so maybe I would have, at
> that.  :-)

Where does one get Whiptail, and will it run on any distro? Is it GPL? If so, 
I can package it with UMENU. It sounds like a great companion for UMENU. Does 
whiptail have a file browser too? With UMENU, whiptail and a file browser, 
one can, within 5 minutes, provide an easy front-end to any group of 
shellscripts, making them look like a complete and "user friendly" app. X is 
not required.

SteveT