Zenity : GTK+(Graphics) Dialoge Command OF Linux

5 min readSep 19, 2021

DESCRIPTION

zenity is a program that will display GTK+ dialogs, and return (either in the return code, or on standard output) the users input. This allows you to present information, and ask for information from the user, from all manner of shell scripts.

For example, zenity — question will return either 0, 1 or 5, depending on whether the user pressed OK, Cancel or timeout has been reached. zenity — entry will output on standard output what the user typed into the text entry field.

Comprehensive documentation is available in the GNOME Help Browser.

OPTIONS

This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-’).

Dialog options

— calendar Display calendar dialog

— entry Display text entry dialog

— error Display error dialog

— file-selection Display file selection dialog

— info Display info dialog

— list Display list dialog

— notification Display notification

— progress Display progress indication dialog

— question Display question dialog

— text-info Display text information dialog

— warning Display warning dialog

— scale Display scale dialog

— color-selection Display color selection dialog

— password Display password dialog

— forms Display forms dialog

General options

— title=TITLE Set the dialog title

— window-icon=ICONPATH Set the window icon with the path to an image. Alternatively, one of the four stock icons can be used: ‘error’, ‘info’, ‘question’ or ‘warning’

— width=WIDTH Set the dialog width

— height=HEIGHT Set the dialog height

— timeout=TIMEOUT Set the dialog timeout in seconds

Calendar options

— text=STRING Set the dialog text

— day=INT Set the calendar day

— month=INT Set the calendar month

— year=INT Set the calendar year

— date-format=PATTERN Set the format for the returned date. The default depends on the user locale or be set with the strftime style. For example %A %d/%m/%y

Text entry options

— text=STRING Set the dialog text

— entry-text=STRING Set the entry text

— hide-text Hide the entry text

Error options

— text=STRING Set the dialog text

— no-wrap Do not enable text wrapping

— no-markup Do not enable pango markup

File selection options

— filename=FILENAME Set the file or directory to be selected by default

— multiple Allow selection of multiple filenames in file selection dialog

— directory Activate directory-only selection

— save Activate save mode

— separator=SEPARATOR Specify separator character when returning multiple filenames

— confirm-overwrite Confirm file selection if filename already exists

— file-filter=NAME | PATTERN1 PATTERN2 Sets a filename filter

Info options

— text=STRING Set the dialog text

— no-wrap Do not enable text wrapping

— no-markup Do not enable pango markup

List options

— text=STRING Set the dialog text

— column=STRING Set the column header

— checklist Use check boxes for first column

— radiolist Use radio buttons for first column

— separator=STRING Set output separator character

— multiple Allow multiple rows to be selected

— editable Allow changes to text

— print-column=NUMBER Specify what column to print to standard output. The default is to return the first column. ‘ALL’ may be used to print all columns.

— hide-column=NUMBER Hide a specific column

— hide-header Hides the column headers

Notification options

— text=STRING Set the notification text

— listen Listen for commands on stdin. Commands include ‘message’, ‘tooltip’, ‘icon’, and ‘visible’ separated by a colon. For example, ‘message: Hello world’, ‘visible: false’, or ‘icon: /path/to/icon’. The icon command also accepts the four stock icon: ‘error’, ‘info’, ‘question’, and ‘warning’

Progress options

— text=STRING Set the dialog text

— percentage=INT Set initial percentage

— auto-close Close dialog when 100% has been reached

— auto-kill Kill parent process if cancel button is pressed —

pulsate Pulsate progress bar

— no-cancel Hides the cancel button

Question options

— text=STRING Set the dialog text

— no-wrap Do not enable text wrapping

— no-markup Do not enable pango markup

— ok-label Set the text of the OK button

— cancel-label Set the text of the cancel button

Text options

— filename=FILENAME Open file

— editable Allow changes to text

— checkbox=TEXT Enable a checkbox for use like a ‘I read and accept the terms.’

— ok-label Set the text of the OK button

— cancel-label Set the text of the cancel button

Warning options

— text=STRING Set the dialog text

— no-wrap Do not enable text wrapping

— no-markup Do not enable pango markup

Scale options

— text=STRING Set the dialog text

— value=VALUE Set initial value

— min-value=VALUE Set minimum value

— max-value=VALUE Set maximum value

— step=VALUE Set step size

— print-partial Print partial values

— hide-value Hide value

Color selection options

— color=VALUE Set the initial color

— show-palette Show the palette

Password dialog options

— username Display the username field

Forms dialog options

— add-entry=FIELDNAME Add a new Entry in forms dialog

— add-password=FIELDNAME Add a new Password Entry in forms dialog

— add-calendar=FIELDNAME Add a new Calendar in forms dialog

— text=STRING Set the dialog text — separator=STRING Set output separator character

— forms-date-format=PATTERN Set the format for the returned date. The default depends on the user locale or be set with the strftime style. For example %A %d/%m/%y

Miscellaneous options