some utilities cannot find yad [Solved]

[baldyeti]

On both MX21KDE & MX23KDE, the two programs "dfh -g" & "isomount -g" fail, stating "GUI mode is not available without the /usr/bin/yad program". Yet yad is available at the specified location and working.

[dolphin_oracle]

looking at the code, looks like a yad interface was never actually implemented.

[baldyeti]

Yup, not working on antiX either. I thought it might be a KDE quirk. No biggie, both programs are still useful on the CLI.

[fehlix]

On both MX21KDE & MX23KDE, the two programs "dfh -g" & "isomount -g" fail, stating "GUI mode is not available without the /usr/bin/yad program". Yet yad is available at the specified location and working.

You may try to make yad mode available with:

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sudo sed -i.ORIG '/^\s*NO_YAD=true/s/^/#/' /usr/local/bin/isomount

so the hardcode line is commented out:

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#    NO_YAD=true

which would make yad mode available for the other tools as well based on isomount, not only for isomount.
IIRC, one reason for the deactivation was the readability for some text elements in dark mode when using dark MX themes,
which would look like this for isomount when mounting, as shown in this example:

isomount-gui-dark.jpg

As seen some pango color codes used by yad are not easy to read within dark themes.
The same in light mode would look ok, in light themes:

isomount-gui-light.jpg

[baldyeti]

Alright fehlix, that works. And thanks for the explanation.