Snippets

• Shell
• Notifications / list chooser
• Export & Import APT Packages

Shell

Notifications / list chooser

GUI

Not possible in Linux headless installation.

Notification

zenity --notification \
	   --window-icon="info" \
	   --text="Blub Blub"

List selection

zenity --list --radiolist --height=275 --width=400 \
	--title="HP OMEN Profile selection" \
  	--column="" 	--column="Profile" --column="Description"\
    FALSE "cool" "Cool Power Profile" \
	TRUE "balanced" "Balanced Power Profile" \
	FALSE "performance" "Performance Power Profile" 

To get the result of this selection just do it like this: VARNAME=$(zenity --list --radiolist --height=275 --width=400 --title="HP OMEN Profile selection" --column="" --column="Profile" --column="Description" FALSE "cool" "Cool Power Profile" FALSE "cool" "Cool Power Profile" TRUE "balanced" "Balanced Power Profile" FALSE "performance" "Performance Power Profile" )

Headless

Notification

whiptail --title "Title Blub" --msgbox "Text blub blub blub" 8 78

List selection

whiptail --title "Title Blub" --fb --menu "Select option" 11 50 3 \
	"option1" "Option text 1" \
	"option2" "Option text 2" \
	"option3" "Option text 3" 

To get the result of any of these just start do it like this   VARNAME=$(whiptail --title "HP OMEN Profile selection" --fb --menu "Select option" 11 50 "cool" "Cool Power Profile""balanced" "Balanced Power Profile" "performance" "Performance Power Profile" 3>&1 1>&2 2>&3)

Export & Import APT Packages

Export

dpkg --get-selections > packages.list

Export extended

apt-mark showauto > package.states.auto.list
apt-mark showmanual > package.states.manual.list
apt-mark showhold > package.states.hold.list

Import

sudo dpkg --set-selections < packages.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -u dselect-upgrade

Import extended

sudo apt-mark auto $(cat package.states.auto.list)
sudo apt-mark manual $(cat package.states.manual.list)
sudo apt-mark manual $(cat package.states.auto.list)