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How do i make the kdialog a certain width

Im trying to make my first bash script and im trying to use kdialog .

How do i make the progress bar a certain width here is my attempt 

dbusRef=`kdialog --title "Sweet As Buckup Demon" --progressbar "Initializing" 8`
qdbus $dbusRef Set "" value 1
qdbus $dbusRef setLabelText "Getting web site folder and creating mysqldump and grabbing configuration files from the apache Server"
cp -rf /usr/local/websites/sweetassurfwear /home/brett/sweetback/
sleep 4
qdbus $dbusRef Set "" value 2
cd /home/brett/sweetback/

And so on.. if you need the entire script i will post it

Basically at each part of the process it out puts text on the progress bar but the dialog keeps changing width.

How do i make the size standard

Solution

  • Use the --geometry argument, e.g.

    kdialog --geometry 300x300+300+300 --title "Sweet As Buckup Demon" --progressbar "Initializing"

    You can see the documentation for this option by typing:

    kdialog --help-all|grep geometry