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> Fortunately, "alert" is configurable enough to do what you want.
> "alert" already supports "zenity" and can easily support other
> dialog-like utilities.
You didn't mention this in your original post. ;)
The main aspect is that they open something that's obviously a dialog
box that can be interacted with using the keyboard or the mouse. It's
visually going to be closer to the original function you're imitating.
Having a big terminal window with a single line of text show up...