progname
- Contributed by
- Mike Hopkirk (hops)
- Obtained from
- Net
- Restrictions
- Public Domain - latest copies available from ftp.org.com contrib
Description
This program displays an arbitrary prompt in a X dialogue
box in the centre of your screen. You can type into it
without having to move your mouse into the new window.
The text you input, is then returned on stdout.
This is useful for menus displayed by your window manager.
If you need an argument for the program you want to launch,
you cat get it by using xprompt in backquotes in place of
the arguments.
- Productivity
- Useful. Solves a problem that is hard to solve otherwise.
- Safety
- Examined code + Used it for a months
- Work Planned
- Convert to use Motif
- Documentation
- Manual page
- Verification
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Note that all this source is configured to be installed under
/usr/skunk5.
To build it for a different location, compile with
make I_DESTDIR=directory.