GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 71565
'gdialog --clear' command not working
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
I have taken the latest source of gnome-utils (ver 1.99) from cvs on tuesday (12/2/2002) along with all its dependencies. Reproducibility : always Steps to be performed: 1) Open any gnome terminal. 2) Type the command 'gdialog --clear' in the command prompt. 3) Nothing is happening
What do you expect it to do? In general, it is best to include expected behavior in bug reports to make it easier for people to understand what the actual bug is.
Man page says like this --clear The screen will be cleared to the screen attribute on exit. I don't think we need to expect "clear" command behaviour with gdialog, because if you want to clear the screen, then you can use the "clear" command itself Can anybody tell about the behaviour/expected output of this command gdialog --clear
I'm still pretty curious what the correct behavior is here... hard to have a good bug if no one is quite clear what is going on :) What you may want to try (judging from 'man dialog') is to 'unset DISPLAY' and then do gdialog --clear. It looks like this flag is just provided for compatibility and not actually intended to do much, so I'm going to leave this as minor.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 71569 ***
gdialog --clear is working in the text mode. But the same is not happening in the graphics mode. Is this the expected behavior?.
Can you compare it to the 1.4 version, venkat? at the very least we should not regress...
Iam not able to find gdialog in the gnome 1.4. I think, gdialog is the new component.
Iam able to find the component dialog(and not gdialog as in gnome- 2.0) in the gnome 1.4. I think both are same. But, the argument -- clear does not exist in the gnome -1.4 dialog.
gdialog was shipped under that name in GNOME 1.4 and before.
Okay, not entirely sure what it's supposed to do myself. Marking as one of those items to look at for 2.0.
punting gdialog.
Some thoughts. I think the --clear is for use with --infobox. In --infobox, it displays a dialog, and returns control back to the script (atleast thats what its supposed to do anyway). So to remove that --infobox, we use --clear. But in gdialog, --infobox doesn't behave that way (not yet). Maybe we can fix --infobox to leave a pid in a file, which the --clear can read and delete the program, in Gnome mode that is.
closing all the gdialog bugs, as gdialog isn't maintained any more and won't be released again
John appeared to forget to close these bugs; closing :-)