How to display infobox in whiptail?

Question

Why does this code not work in Bash?

whiptail --infobox \"My Text\" 0 0

The manual states:

whiptail --infobox text height w         


        

Answer 1

Definitely looks like a bug.

I think it must be saving the screen, displaying the box, but then clearing the screen again (like "less ") - you can see output if you pipe it through something like "cat -v".

I think vt220 is pretty similar to xterm, so a workaround is:

TERM=vt220 whiptail --infobox "My Text" 0 0