Thank you for the help.

https://api.kde.org/legacy/pykde-4.7-api/kdeui/KPassivePopup.html

Note it’s marked as legacy so you may need a different api as it is likely to be obsolete over time.

Regards
Paul

I think that KDE uses the KNotifications API for those notifications and I don’t think you can do it with KDlaiog.

If you type:

kdialog --help

in a terminal window, only these two options are listed for passive popups:

--passivepopup <text> <timeout>

Maybe YAD can do it. It’s in the Ubuntu and Debian repositories in the event that you use either of those operating systems.

I’m sorry about that. I just checked it and was able to download it without any problems. If you click the link, box.com should open in a new tab or window and you should see the kdialog_scripts file listed. If you then click the “Download” button in the top right, it should download the file. It worked for me just now in Firefox. Hopefully what you saw was a temporary issue. If not, let me know and I’ll find another way to get it to you.

That would work nicely and make for neater code, too. Thanks for the suggestion. It looks like yours isn’t working because you used the same character. Since you’re surrounding quoted material in quotes, you either need to escape one set of the quotes or use different kinds of quotes. I chose the latter. This works for me:

echo 'tag1 "A 1" tag2 "B 1"' >file.lst
kdialog --menu "select item:" $(file.lst)

echo “tag1 “A 1” tag2 “B 1″” >file.lst
kdialog –menu “select item:” $(file.lst)

This does not work in a bash script. Kdialog interpretes ” or ‘ not as a special character although the string looks fine.
I would appreciate any hint for a correct syntax.
Walther

Thank you for mentioning it. I hadn’t heard of it and maybe it will be useful for anyone who would like to install it.

The PyDialog is a desktop-independend dialog with better functions (like Tabs, html tags, etc) and compatible with kdialog as well