LGT: DD-GUI.

Introduce

LGT it's series of Linux Graphical Tools. The purpose of this series created to help Linux users using of system tools. Now LGT series is creating by me and @dominico2000 (who started this series one week ago).

Today, I add my first LGT project. It's DD-GUI: graphical overlay for Linux console tool called dd. The dd copy data byte-by-byte. It's first version of this tool, in future i will add all functions of dd command to this tools and I will upload it.

DD-GUI Repository

Features

• Execute dd command
• Setup blocks size (bs)
• Setup specified number of blocks to read
• Direct output from dd in output window

Technology Stack

• Java 8
• JavaFX (FXML)
• Linux Bash Command for launching dd tool

Proof of work

Dependencies

• dd (console tool)
• gksudo or kdesu (root providers)

Installation

1. Download dd-gui_Release.tar.gz from here package and untar it using following command: tar -zxvf dd-gui_Release.tar.gz.
2. Make sure that you have dd. If you don't install it.
3. Run install script with root. You can do it usually by using: sudo ./install.
4. Gratulations! DD-GUI is installed on your computer. Now you can run it by call dd-gui or create shortcut for it.

Problems

If you have any problems with my app you can contact with me on Discord by FoxsiL#3578.

How to contribute

If you want to contribute that project you can make Pull Request or contact with me on Discord by FoxsiL#3578.

MyGitHub

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