On Sunday, March 26, 2017 06:10:02 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 06:51:06PM -0500, Jason wrote: > > Okay, if no one knows how to make zenity --text-info auto-scroll, what > > other suggestions would you have for displaying output of a shell script > > that is able to show the output of the current operation but with the > > option to scroll up to see previous lines? > > > > As an example of what I have in mind, I use rsync to make file backups > > and pipe the output into zenity (--text-info) to show what is being > > done. The only problem is that you have to keep scrolling down manually > > to see the last entry, which is not very convenient. > > I gave up zenity since long, and whenever I've to cobble up a small > GUI I went back to... Tcl/Tk. > > If you are interested, I could improvise something to get you started, > but perhaps it leads you too far away from your comfort zone.
Jason, I don't know what you're doing exactly, but I'm tempted to suggest you simply use the non-GUI command line within something like a KDE konsole with tools like tail -f. Yoiu could open (at least) two tabs, one to display the output (with tail -f or not--you can scroll within a konsole tab) and the 2nd to enter commands. If that sounds interesting, tell us more about what you're trying to do and I'm sure I or someone else can give you useful (that might come from someone else ;-) advice.