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EasyBashGUI is a Bash functions library for *BSD and GNU/Linux that aims to give simple GUI functions using yad, gtkdialog, kdialog, zenity, Xdialog, gum, qarma, (c)dialog, whiptail or bash builtins depending on KDE or GNOME running or not, Yad/Gtkdialog/Xdialog installed or not and, eventually, X server running or not.

3 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 2 stories, 1 comment · first 2022-07-18 · latest 2025-03-21

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  1. …watch (and lament) the absolute mess that is GUI programming in Linux. I feel like something like https://github.com/BashGui/easybashgui (in terms of user/creator experience) shouldn't be that hard.
    comment by jrm4 · 2022-07-18 · in WordPerfect for UNIX (1992)