Re: UI::Dialog fselect

I installed UI::Dialog and got the following results, something is wrong as shown below... Missing module?

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.010;
use UI::Dialog;

my $d = new UI::Dialog ( backtitle => 'Demo', title => 'Default',
                         height => 20, width => 65 , listheight => 5,
   ## this is a problem ###  order => [ 'zenity', 'xdialog' ] );
                     );
  
  # Either a Zenity or Xdialog msgbox widget should popup,
  # with a preference for Zenity.
  $d->msgbox( title => 'Welcome!', text => 'Welcome one and all!' );
  
  __END__
  Prints:
  
  +-------------------------------------------------------------------
+----------+
  | Demo                                                              
+          |
  +-------------------------------------------------------------------
+----------+
  |                                                                   
+          |
  | +-----------------------------------------------------------------
+--------+ |
  | |                                Welcome!                         
+        | |
  | +-----------------------------------------------------------------
+--------+ |
  | | Welcome one and all!                                            
+        | |
  | |                                                                 
+        | |
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+        | |
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+        | |
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+        | |
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+        | |
  | |                                                                 
+        | |
  | +-----------------------------------------------------------------
+--------+ |
  |                                                                   
+          |
  +-------------------------------------------------------------------
+----------+
                           [ Press Enter to Continue ]
  Process completed successfully
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Re^2: UI::Dialog fselect
by stangoesagain (Acolyte) on Apr 21, 2016 at 17:41 UTC

That's an idea - I've tried with zenity being preferred and fselect assigns value to variable as expected. I don't have xdialog installed so if I try xdialog I get "unable to load suitable backend" but not terminal output like yours.

I suspect kdialog part of UI::Dialog hasn't been updated to work with latest KDE. On my system there was a jump from 4 to 5, not sure about exact version when it got broken. I use kdialog for file selection all the time and it works flawlessly when evoked by bash scripts.

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