kdialog(1)
NAME
kdialog - Show KDE dialog boxes from shell scripts
SYNOPSIS
kdialog [Qt-options] [KDE-options] [options] [arg]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the kdialog KDE Application. This
manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because
the original program does not have a manual page.
kdialog allows to display dialog boxes from shell scripts. The syntax
is very much inspired from the dialog command (which shows text mode
dialogs).
OPTIONS
- --yesno text
- Question message box with yes/no buttons
- --yesnocancel text
- Question message box with yes/no/cancel buttons
- --warningyesno text
- Warning message box with yes/no buttons
- --warningcontinuecancel text
- Warning message box with continue/cancel buttons
- --warningyesnocancel text
- Warning message box with yes/no/cancel buttons
- --sorry text
- 'Sorry' message box
- --error text
- 'Error' message box
- --msgbox text
- Message Box dialog
- --inputbox text init
- Input Box dialog
- --password text
- Password dialog
- --textbox file [width] [height]
- Text Box dialog
- --menu text [tag item] [tag item] ...
- Menu dialog
- --checklist text [tag item status] ...
- Check List dialog
- --radiolist text [tag item status] ...
- Radio List dialog
- --title text
- Dialog title
- --separate-output
- Return list items on separate lines (for checklist option)
- Arguments:
- arg Arguments - depending on main option
- Generic options:
- --help Show help about options
- --help-qt
Show Qt specific options
- --help-kde
Show KDE specific options
- --help-all
Show all options
- --author
Show author information
- -v, --version
Show version information
- --license
Show license information
- -- End of options
- Qt options:
- --display displayname
Use the X-server display displayname.
- --session sessionId
Restore the application for the given sessionId.
- --cmap Causes the application to install a private color map on an
8-bit display.
- --ncols count
Limits the number of colors allocated in the color cube on an 8-bit display, if the application is using the QApplication::ManyColor color specification.
- --nograb
tells Qt to never grab the mouse or the keyboard.
- --dograb
running under a debugger can cause an implicit -nograb, use -dograb to override.
- --sync switches to synchronous mode for debugging.
- --fn, --font fontname
defines the application font.
- --bg, --background color
sets the default background color and an application palette (light and dark shades are calculated).
- --fg, --foreground color
sets the default foreground color.
- --btn,--button color
sets the default button color.
- --name name
sets the application name.
- --title title
sets the application title (caption).
- --visual TrueColor
forces the application to use a TrueColor visual on an 8-bit display.
- --inputstyle inputstyle
sets XIM (X Input Method) input style. Possible values are onthespot, overthespot, offthespotandroot.
- --im XIM-server
set XIM server.
- --noxim
disable XIM.
- --reverse
mirrors the whole layout of widgets.
- KDE options:
- --caption caption
Use caption as name in the titlebar.
- --icon icon
Use icon as the application icon.
- --miniicon icon
Use icon as the icon in the titlebar.
- --config filename
Use alternative configuration file.
- --dcopserver server
Use the DCOP Server specified by server.
- --nocrashhandler
Disable crash handler, to get core dumps.
- --waitforwm
Waits for a WM_NET compatible windowmanager.
- --style style
sets the application GUI style.
- --geometry geometry
sets the client geometry of the main widget.
AUTHOR
- KDialog was written by David Faure <faure@kde.org>, Nick Thompson, Nick
Thompson, Matthias Hoelzer <hoelzer@kde.org> and David Gumbel
<david.guembel@gmx.net>.
Please use http://bugs.kde.org to report bugs, do not mail the authors directly.
This manual page was prepared by Karolina Lindqvist
<pgd-karolinali@algonet.se> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).