Zenity

what is zenity?

Zenity is an open source and a cross-platform application which displays GTK+ Dialog Boxes in command-line and using shell scripts. It allows to ask and present information to/from shell in Graphical Boxes. The application lets you create Graphical dialog boxes in command-line and makes the interaction between user and shell very easy.

Zenity Features

1. FOSS Software
2. Cross Platform Application
3. Allow GTK+ Dialog Box Execution
4. Command Line Tool
5. Support in Shell Scripting

Usefulness

1. Easy GUI Creation
2. Less features than other complex Tools
3. Enables shell scripts to interact with a GUI users
4. Simple dialog creation is possible for graphical user interaction

these are various options using zenity..

#man zenity

This will command will help checking zenity options

these are various options using zenity..

1.A quick calander dialog

#zenity --calander

2. A General text Entry Dialog Box

#zenity --entry

3. An error Dialog Box

#zenity --error

4.An information dialog

#zenity --info 

#zenity --info --text="hello linux"

5. A question Dialog box

#zenity --question

6. A progress Bar

#zenity --progress

7. Scale Dialog

#zenity --scale

8. A Password Dialog

#zenity --password

9. A Form Dialog box

#zenity --forms

10. An about Dialog

#zenity --about

11.Interactive Dialog box

zenity --info --title="Nice Meeting You" --text="Your Name?"

Use of espeak-ng command in linux