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Like tools such as whiptail and dialog, Zenity allows easy creation of GUIs, [2] though it has fewer features than more complex GUI-creation tools. [3]Other scripting languages such as Perl and Python can be used to construct full-scale GUI applications, but the zenity program enables a shell script to interact with a GUI user....
GNOME Console is a terminal emulator for the GNOME Desktop Environment. It originated as a terminal emulator specifically for the Phosh mobile interface, which needed an adaptive terminal emulator. [11] Since GNOME version 42 it has been a part of the default app set for GNOME, replacing GNOME Terminal. [12] [13]
The first concepts for GNOME Shell were created during GNOME's User Experience Hackfest 2008 in Boston. [7] [8] [9]After criticism of the traditional GNOME desktop and accusations of stagnation and lacking vision, [10] the resulting discussion led to the announcement of GNOME 3.0 in April 2009. [11]
The shell also permitted you to use shell scripts as filters, providing integrated support for handling signals, but lacked the ability to define functions. Finally, it incorporated a number of features we use today, including command substitution (using back quotes) and HERE documents to embed preserved string literals within a script."
COMMAND.COM, the original Microsoft command line processor introduced on MS-DOS as well as Windows 9x, in 32-bit versions of NT-based Windows via NTVDM; cmd.exe, successor of COMMAND.COM introduced on OS/2 and Windows NT systems, although COMMAND.COM is still available in virtual DOS machines on IA-32 versions of those operating systems also.
Beginning with GNOME 3.8, GNOME provides a suite of officially supported GNOME Shell extensions that provide an Applications menu (a basic start menu) and a "Places menu" on the top bar and a panel with a windows list at the bottom of the screen that lets users quickly minimize and restore open windows, a "Show Desktop" button in the bottom ...
Cygwin (/ ˈ s ɪ ɡ w ɪ n / SIG-win) [3] is a free and open-source Unix-like environment and command-line interface (CLI) for Microsoft Windows. The project also provides a software repository containing open-source packages. Cygwin allows source code for Unix-like operating systems to be compiled and run on Windows. Cygwin provides native ...
GNOME Shell – the desktop graphical GUI shell introduced with GNOME version 3.0; Cinnamon fork of the GNOME Shell; GNOME Panel and forks – applications launcher; Maynard, a shell for Weston by Collabora originally for the Raspberry Pi; Budgie is a distro-agnostic desktop environment