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).
