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zenity is a tool for displaying gtk+ dialogs from command line or shell scripts. It can be used for displaying various kind of dialog boxes.

It is easy to use zenity for simpler applications compared to writing a GTK based program.

Following are some of dialogs that can be created using zenity.

• Read text (entry)



hash@ssl50:~$ name=`zenity --entry --title="Example" --text="Your name please"`





• Calendar



hash@ssl50:~$ zenity --calendar --title="Example" --text="Select the day"




• Filechooser



hash@ssl50:~$ filename=`zenity --file-selection`





• Question
  
  
  hash@ssl50:~$ zenity --question --text="Are you sure ?" ; echo $?
  
  
  
  

Check man page of zenity for more information.