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Re: zenity --text-info autoscrolling?

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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.

Let me know.

Regards
- -- tomás
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zenity --text-info autoscrolling? Jason <electron@emypeople.net> - 2017-03-24 23:50 +0100
  Re: zenity --text-info autoscrolling? Jason <electron@emypeople.net> - 2017-03-26 01:00 +0100
    Re: zenity --text-info autoscrolling? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-03-26 12:20 +0200
      Re: zenity --text-info autoscrolling? rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-03-26 13:50 +0200
        Re: zenity --text-info autoscrolling? Jason <electron@emypeople.net> - 2017-03-28 04:20 +0200
      Re: zenity --text-info autoscrolling? Jason <electron@emypeople.net> - 2017-03-28 04:40 +0200
  Re: zenity --text-info autoscrolling? Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2017-03-26 22:20 +0200
    Re: zenity --text-info autoscrolling? Jason <electron@emypeople.net> - 2017-03-28 04:20 +0200
      Re: zenity --text-info autoscrolling? Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2017-03-28 21:30 +0200
        Re: zenity --text-info autoscrolling? Jason <electron@emypeople.net> - 2017-03-30 04:30 +0200

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