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Commands tagged GUI

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while notify-send "`acpi -t`"; do sleep 300; done
2011-07-05 18:22:06
User: unixmonkey8046
Functions: sleep
Tags: loop notify-send GUI acpi
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Use acpi and notify-send to report current temperature every five minutes.

Use acpi and notify-send to report current temperature every five minutes.

Works best in a shell script run at startup. acpi is called for temperature and fed to notify-send for a tooltip. After waiting five minutes, it will start over.

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while ping -c 1 127.0.0.1 > /dev/null; do acpi -t -f | while read tem; do notify-send "$tem"; done; sleep 300; done
2011-07-02 06:47:25
User: c0de
Functions: acpi ping read sleep
Tags: loop notify-send GUI acpi
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Use acpi and notify-send to report current temperature every five minutes.

works best in a shell script run at startup. It will ping localhost once and output to null, after it does that, acpi is called for temperature in fahrenheit and piped through to another loop that feeds notify-send for a tooltip. After waiting five minutes, it will start over.

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sudo -b xterm
2010-10-05 23:03:01
User: shavenwarthog
Functions: sudo
Tags: sudo GUI background
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sudo for launching gui apps in background

"The -b (background) option tells sudo to run the given command in the background." -- after it asks you for the password in the foreground.

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sudo ls ; sudo gedit /etc/passwd &
2010-10-05 21:01:34
User: aporter
Functions: ls sudo
Tags: sudo GUI background
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sudo for launching gui apps in background

Take advantage of sudo keeping you authenticated for ~15 minutes.

The command is a little longer, but it does not require X (it can run on a headless server).

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gksudo gedit /etc/passwd &
2010-10-05 13:11:04
User: b_t
Tags: sudo GUI background
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sudo for launching gui apps in background

Need package: gksu

Note:

Launching gui app in background that needs sudo, won't work great with our old

friendly style of launching:

sudo gedit /etc/passwd &

because this would put sudo in background !

Using gksudo as demonstrated, would popup a gui sudo window.

May be this is a common knowledge, but not knowing this

frustrated me during my newbie year.

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zenity --title passwd --width 800 --height 600 --text-info --filename /etc/passwd
2010-04-16 04:20:52
User: rkulla
Functions: passwd
Tags: gtk GUI window zenity dialog
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Open a file in a GTK+ dialog window

I use zenity because it's a rewrite of gdialog and also replaces gmessage and has more useful options.

Using --text-info allows you to select and copy the text to your clipboard.

To see a file in a list dialog: cat /etc/passwd | zenity --width 800 --height 600 --list --column Entries

If you don't have zenity, you'll have to download it via apt-get install zenity, etc.

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xprop | awk '/PID/ {print $3}' | xargs ps h -o pid,cmd
2009-02-16 07:55:19
User: jackhab
Functions: awk ps xargs
Tags: Process Management windows process GUI
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Click on a GUI window and show its process ID and command used to run the process

This command is useful when you want to know what process is responsible for a certain GUI application and what command you need to issue to launch it in terminal.

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