LGT: DD-GUI.

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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@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

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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.

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