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Quick - what time is it in Singapore?

By Bob Mesibov 01/08/2017 Tutorials

If you want to know the local time around the world, Linux has options ranging from plain to gorgeous. The plainest one is the tzselect command, which offers choices in a terminal that lead you to the local time in a single region. Middling-pretty is gworldclock, a little GUI window that can be…

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The buttons of YAD

By Bob Mesibov 02/04/2017 Tutorials

I use the YAD dialog program quite a lot in my shell scripts. Written and maintained by Victor Ananjevksy, YAD is easy to use and has dozens of handy options. In previous Linux Rain articles demonstrating YAD (here, here and here), I used only the default YAD buttons, "Cancel" and…

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Tips on getting (and suggesting, and editing) user input

By Bob Mesibov 01/08/2014 Tutorials

In a previous Linux Rain article I explained how to use the YAD dialog to do multiple-item data entry in a GUI. Here I show one way to allow users to check and edit what they've entered in YAD. I also explain how to offer default, editable inputs in terminal-based data entry, and how to color the…

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Multiple-item data entry with YAD

By Bob Mesibov 07/04/2014 Tutorials

YAD (Yet Another Dialog) creates GUI dialogs for data entry, user notification, etc. It was written by Victor Ananjevsky and is described as a fork of Zenity. In fact, it greatly extends Zenity and has a very large number of handy options. Here I explain how to build a multiple-item data entry form…

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Libadwaita 1.8 Arrives Alongside GNOME 49 with Improved Shortcuts and Styling

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GStreamer 1.26.6 Adds Support for WVC1 and WMV3 Codecs to Video4Linux2

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MKVToolNix 95.0 MKV Manipulation Tool Improves the Chapter Generation Feature

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