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I need to test something with Ubuntu's copy progress window. But I don't want to copy some big files to have it stay for the period of test. How can I have a demo Copy progress dialog without copying anything?

I'm on Unity, Ubuntu 16.04.

It seems newer nautilus included in Xenial doesn't even show a copy window. But I'm not asking specifically for nautilus. Anything generic which is a progress dialog will do the job.

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  • Voting it unclear without asking any clarification in comment?
    – Anwar
    Oct 29, 2016 at 10:18
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    There's nothing unclear about this question. In a situation like this it would be appropriate if whoever voted it unclear posted a comment giving an explanation of what was considered to be unclear.
    – karel
    Oct 29, 2016 at 10:42
  • @karel perhaps you should read the discussion under the answer
    – muru
    Oct 29, 2016 at 12:02
  • @muru I don't know if it's you who voted. But regarding your unclear comment, you only edited the title, which indicates you had only problem with the title. But a user should read both title and description. If title is misleading you can always read the description + you have the option of commenting under question
    – Anwar
    Oct 29, 2016 at 12:42
  • @Anwar your original question was clear (you wanted the copy dialogue) but your answer made it unclear. I am not the only person who commented there, and I see no reason why I should comment both on the question and the answer when you're the one who posted both.
    – muru
    Oct 29, 2016 at 12:44

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I've found that zenity can do this. Using this command seems to be sufficient 

zenity --progress --auto-close --time-remaining --pulsate --text="Copying 2 of 4 files"

That brings a progress dialog window like this

progress window

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    If that's really your answer, I don't understand your question. Why did you need this, exactly?
    – muru
    Oct 29, 2016 at 9:47
  • @muru You didn't understand if this is an answer or why I needed this?
    – Anwar
    Oct 29, 2016 at 9:49
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    Both. That's not a copy window, and nautilus' copy progress display is nothing like zenity's.
    – muru
    Oct 29, 2016 at 9:50
  • @muru This is not an exact answer I know, but this is most close I found. I needed a copy progress dialog (not specific to nautilus as I mentioned in the question) and it is a progress dialog. I needed this to set a rule based on window type. I waited more than 1 month and no one answered. A question with a close answer is better than leaving it unanswered imo. That's why I wrote this
    – Anwar
    Oct 29, 2016 at 9:56
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    Originally you've asked for nautilus copy dialog, so I think that explains why there was no answer for a while - simply because it is impossible to do with Nautilus. You might want to reword your question that you're open to alternative solutions :) just FYI
    – Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy
    Oct 29, 2016 at 10:00

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