Zenity replaces GNOME's gdialog and dialog, enabling command-line displays of dialog boxes. It's easy-to-use and helps simplify tasks associated with dialog boxes.
Zenity is a software that allows you to display dialog boxes from the command line and shell scripts. It is a rewrite of Gdialog, the GNOME port of dialog. This software is easy to use, and if you understand it, things are just as they are. However, if you do not understand it, things can be slightly confusing.
Compiling this package is easy; to get started, simply `cd' to the directory containing the package's source code and type `./configure' to start the process. If you are using `csh' on an old version of System V, you might need to type `sh ./configure' instead to prevent `csh' from trying to execute `configure' itself. The `configure' process might take some time to complete, but it prints messages telling which features it is checking for.
Once you have completed the `configure' process, you can move on to typing `make' to compile the package. If you want to run any self-tests that come with the package, you can optionally type `make check'. After the compilation is complete, type `make install' to install the programs, data files, and documentation.
If you want to remove the program binaries and object files from the source code directory, type `make clean'. To remove the files that `configure' created (so you can compile the package for a different kind of computer), type `make distclean'. There is also a `make maintainer-clean' target, which is intended mainly for the package's developers. If you use it, you may have to get all sorts of other programs to regenerate files that came with the distribution.
Overall, Zenity is a user-friendly software that is helpful if you need to display dialog boxes from the command line or shell scripts. Given that it is a rewrite of Gdialog, users familiar with Gdialog will have an easier time adjusting to Zenity.
Compiling this package is easy; to get started, simply `cd' to the directory containing the package's source code and type `./configure' to start the process. If you are using `csh' on an old version of System V, you might need to type `sh ./configure' instead to prevent `csh' from trying to execute `configure' itself. The `configure' process might take some time to complete, but it prints messages telling which features it is checking for.
Once you have completed the `configure' process, you can move on to typing `make' to compile the package. If you want to run any self-tests that come with the package, you can optionally type `make check'. After the compilation is complete, type `make install' to install the programs, data files, and documentation.
If you want to remove the program binaries and object files from the source code directory, type `make clean'. To remove the files that `configure' created (so you can compile the package for a different kind of computer), type `make distclean'. There is also a `make maintainer-clean' target, which is intended mainly for the package's developers. If you use it, you may have to get all sorts of other programs to regenerate files that came with the distribution.
Overall, Zenity is a user-friendly software that is helpful if you need to display dialog boxes from the command line or shell scripts. Given that it is a rewrite of Gdialog, users familiar with Gdialog will have an easier time adjusting to Zenity.
What's New
Version 2.26.0 / 2.27.90: N/A