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		jmholla 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Self-imposed ban – a lightweight bash script to bl... Why have a dependency on Zenity instead of displaying the message in the terminal? Seems weirdly limiting to have a GUI dependency for a terminal application thus making this unusable on headless systems. I think you could make it optional and use STDERR if Zenity's not around.

yjftsjthsd-h 9 months ago | [–]

I assume it's meant to work for programs that aren't being launched from the terminal

xunil2ycom 9 months ago | [–]

My question exactly, minus the optional part. If it's a command-line tool, it should not require any GUI elements at all.

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