this works fine with xterm
xterm -e '(dialog --msgbox "thebigmessage" 0 0)'
but not with konsole nor gnome-terminal
konsole -e '(dialog --msgbox "thebigmessage" 0 0)'
gnome-terminal -e '(dialog --msgbox "thebigmessage" 0 0)'
I need the parenthesis (which are the issue) because I am actually doing
xterm -e '(dialog --msgbox "thebigmessage" 0 0 >/dev/tty) 2>&1'
both konsole and gnome-terminal say: (dialog is not recognized as a valid command.
EDIT: the following works on xterm & konsole
xterm -e bash -c '(dialog --msgbox "thebigmessage" 0 0)'
konsole -e bash -c '(dialog --msgbox "thebigmessage" 0 0)'
and this works on gnome-terminal
gnome-terminal -x bash -c '(dialog --msgbox "thebigmessage" 0 0)'
I need to know for any existing type of terminals. if you can check it on other terminals, thanks for adding the result here.