ZENITY is a program that will display dialogues in a pop up box. This allows us to present as well as ask information from the user.
Some examples of how Zenity can be used :-
- To see the manual of Zenity :
Cmd name :- man zenity
- To enter text with title that will appear in a pop-up box :
Cmd name :- zenity --info --title=”Weather Forecast” --text=”The Waether looks sunny today!”
- To ask question or confirmation :
Cmd name :- zenity — question
- To create a progress rating bar :
Cmd name :- zenity — progress
- Zenity can be integrated with the shell commands :
Cmd name :- zenity — info — title=”Today’s Date” — text=”Today is $(date +%d)th of $(date +%b)”
- To type password in a pop up graphical box.
Cmd name :- zenity —password
- To pop up a warning message :
Cmd name :- zenity — warning
Thank You!