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Zenity command

2 min readSep 20, 2021

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zenity is a command in Linux/Unix that displays the GTK+ dialog box and return the users input as an desirable output inside dialog box. This allow you to ask information present information from the user.

zenity in Linux

zenity is open source cross platform application/program that allow the execution of GTk+dialog boxes as creation of GUI program in command line shell scripts.

some of the basic options of zenity command

We can see all the options of zenity command with manual in the Linux i.e. “man zenity”.

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USAGE: zenity [OPTIONS…]

  1. man zenity
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man zenity command

2. Calendar options in zenity

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3. Message dialog

we can show text as message to the user with options in zenity command in linux.

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zenity entry cmd

4.Warning message

We can show warning message that will display message in a GUI dialog box.

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zenity warning cmd

5. form zenity

We can create form too with zenity command in Linux as it is one of my favourite option in zenity.

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zenity forms

You can make many more dialog box with the help of zenity and its options.

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