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Asked: 2026-05-27T04:48:24+00:00

I want create a simple graphical (Qt, Gtk, …) dialog, concretly a simple print

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I want create a simple graphical (Qt, Gtk, …) dialog, concretly a simple print dialog, as a “frontend” to lpr, in bash.
What I want? How many pages per page, printing interval. It’s (at least) two options.

What is the best util(s) to solve this problem?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’ve searched what dialog creators are. I found yad and with this I can set my desired options:

    yad --skip-taskbar --center --title="Print dialog" {--image,--window-icon}=/usr/share/icons/Tango/72x72/devices/printer1.png --form --item-separator=, --field="Pages per sheet":CB 1,2,4,6,8 --field="Pages"

    Dialog

    And when I choose “2 pages per sheet” and pages “1-12” and after click OK the output will 2|1-12|.

    This is what I desired. Zenity or Xdialog can do similar?

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